RIP......SS3 student dies during school's interhouse sports in Abuja

So sad.......Michael Paul Ogbe, a 16-year-old student of ASACS International Staff College in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has died from serious head injuries he sustained af­ter participating in a high jump during his school’s inter-house sports on March 1st.

Michael who is said to be the best science student in his school and the only son of his parents, was rushed to the school's clinic from where he was taken to the Emergency Ward of the Bwari General Hos­pital where he was confirmed dead.

His mother, Mrs Nnenna Ogbe, said she lost her husband when Michael was 4 years old. According to her, Michael is a computer guru who aspired to be a computer security expert in government or a tele­communications company. She said she had started the process of enrolling him in the Kwan­tlem Polytechnic University, Metro Vancouver, BC Cana­da where he was billed to re­sume in September 2017 af­ter his final examiniation.

The bereaved mother says she gave the school a living child but they have given her a dead child in return. She accused the school of negligence and is demanding for justice.

Sources claimed that Michael would have survived if he was rushed immediately to the hospital for treatment. Findings also revealed that the school


lacked high jump facilities as it was a small mattress that was placed on the ground for the students to land on.

When Authorityngr newspaper called the proprie­tor, Chief A.B. Ekwere, who also owns Dorben Polytechnic in Bwari, he declined to speak. All the subsequent calls were not picked.

Mrs Ogbe, who said she single-handedly brought up Michael, la­mented that she was not im­mediately informed when the incident occurred. She got to the hospital to meet her son al­ready packaged for the mor­tuary.

She lamented that if only she was called immediately, she would have taken him to a private specialist hospital for adequate med­ical attention.

Mrs. Ogbe recalled that the deceased had a premo­nition of his death as he was reluctant to return to school after the mid-term break.

“We had to force him to go on Tuesday,” she said. “Michael was a comput­er wiz-kid. He wanted to work as a computer security expert in government or a tele­communications company,” Ogbe said, displaying a form she obtained from a school in Cana­da where he was billed to re­sume in September 2017.

“I miss him so much, I can’t give birth again, I don’t even have a husband, I don’t know where to start from. Life has no meaning any­more; I worked so hard for Michael.

The school is so careless, they don’t take care of the students, I want justice done. I gave you a live child and you are giving me back a dead one. It wouldn’t have taken me 40 minutes to get to the school,” she lamented.