A cardboard displayed by the bereaved mother reads, ‘We Need Justice For Miguel, BrickHall School Kill Miguel.’
The mother of the late four-year-old Miguel Ovoke who recently died at the BrickHall School in Abuja during feeding hours on Monday stormed the school with some loved ones to protest against the handling of the matter by the school authorities.
A cardboard displayed by the bereaved mother reads, ‘We Need Justice For Miguel, BrickHall School Kill Miguel.’
It was learnt that Miguel Ovoke died on Wednesday, April 24.
In some videos obtained by SaharaReporters on Monday, the bereaved mother lamented her pain.
“18 students for one class where I dey place N350,000,” she said in one of the videos.
In another video showing some staff members of the school, she went from one staff member to another, identifying them as the people responsible for covering up her son’s death.
“See the head teacher,” she said. Moving from the head headteacher to another staffer, she said, “See who lie for doctor say my pikin dey for hospital, na this man lie for doctor ooo. Doctor say my pikin no die for hospital. Na who carry my pikin dead body go hospital.”
A police officer is seen in one of the videos asking her, “If your matter in in CID, why are you here?”
The situation later became tense as a police officer allegedly threatened to beat the protesters.
“Where the policeman wey say he go beat us; come outside? See the policeman wey say e go beat us,” one of them said.
On April 26, SaharaReporters reported that the family of the late Miguel had demanded the Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) footage of the accident.
The school which is located at Cadastral Zone B11, Kaura in Abuja, is owned by Senator Joy Emodi. She was a member of the 5th and 6th Senate before she served as Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on National Assembly Matters.
She is the founder and Chairman of the school, SaharaReporters learnt.
During her time in the Senate, she was the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education.
According to the death certificate of the pupil dated April 24, 2024, issued by Excel Specialist Hospital, Abuja, which was sighted by The PUNCH, Ovoke was taken to the hospital by his teachers around 11am in an unconscious state.
The medical report, signed by Dr. Akinwande Ajayi, on behalf of the medical director, indicated that he was brought in, “on account of aspiration on meat while feeding at school.”
Upon examination, the medical team found that the boy’s pupils were fixed and dilated, with a nonreactive response to light.
His peripheral pulses were said to be “impalpable, blood pressure was unrecordable, and there was no cardiopulmonary activity or respiratory excursions, silent chest.”
Efforts made by the hospital to resuscitate him failed.