Regarding the incident concerning the death of a Chrisland school, Lagos government has taken a drastic step to ensure justice is done by ordering the closure of a Chrisland School.
This involves one Whitney Adeniran, a student of Chrisland School in Opebi Ikeja branch, who died during a sports event on February 9, 2023.
The mother and entire family of the deceased by name Blessing accused Chrisland of total negligence even as they continued continued questioning the school.
Blessing lamented at the lacadestical attitude of the school in not provision of emergency response response at the venue of the event, hence didn’t administer first aid.
The mother insisted that there is no way such could happen as the girl in question had no pre-existing heart condition despite the doctor’s allusion to a cardiac arrest.
Though the Lagos State Commissioner of Education, Folasade Adefisayo, Lagos says the school is now closed, pending an ongoing probe.
She said, “We also note the impact of this unfortunate event on family, friends, and acquaintance of Whitney and call for calm as we assure that no effort will be spared in investigating the incident”, the commissioner stated.
Also regarding the earlier happenings in the school while reacting to public criticism following the 12-year-old student’s death, the management at Chrisland School said Whitney had reported “not-too-buoyant” health on January 20, contrary to claims by her parents.
The school said it opted to take Whitney to a health centre, and not a hospital, based on proximity considerations.
Chrisland dismissed insinuations that there was foul play in the death case while citing that she slumped in public.
“Our immediate response was to take advantage of proximity by identifying the nearest medical facility to take her to, where the doctor on duty administered oxygen and every aid possible to her,” the institution had added.
This is not the first time Chrisland School Lagos would be at the centre of a crisis involving one of its students.
In mid-2022, four teachers were arraigned after a sex tape by Chrisland pupils surfaced online during an outing.
In 2019, an ex-staffer of the Chrisland in VGC bagged a 60-year jail term for defiling a two-year-old girl in 2016.