Security officers are in large numbers at Dowen College in Lekki, amid reports that the Lagos State administration is planning to reopen the school soon.
Armed police officers with Armoured Personnel Carriers were reportedly sighted patrolling the school and the dorms adjacent to the main building.
The presence of security personnel could be linked to threats made by certain Niger Delta youths to launch a protest against the school’s reopening.
The school was closed in December after one of its students, 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni, died.
Some senior students at the school allegedly beaten the deceased and fed him a chemical substance. Dowen College rejected this, claiming that Oromoni was injured while playing football at school.
The Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution acquitted five students and five staff members of the school involved in Oromoni’s death in January.
According to the DPP Director, Adetutu Oshinusi, the report issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and the Central Hospital, Warri, the causes of Oromoni’s death were septicaemia, lobar pneumonia with acute pyelonephritis, pyomyositis of the right ankle, and acute bacteria pneumonia due to severe sepsis.
Based on these findings, the DPP’s legal advice concluded that there is “no prima facie case of murder, involuntary manslaughter, or malicious administration of poison with intent to harm against the five students.”
Newsclickng.com had earlier reported that Oromoni`s family rejects DPP’s report, appeals to Buhari for justice
https://www.newsclickng.com/oromoni-family-rejects-dpps-report-appeals-to-buhari-for-justice/