Chrisland Int’l: Whitney’s Father Explains How Daughter Died
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The father of late Whitney Adeniran, a student of Chrisland International School, Opebi, Lagos, Mr Michael Adeniran, on January 22, 2024, said his daughter was already dead before she was taken to the hospital.
The aggrieved father, who announced this at the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, alleged that the school nurse affirmed his daughter was dead before she was taken to the hospital.
According to him, the nurse said his daughter’s eyes had dilated but she could not confirm her death because she was not in position to do so.
Recall that Lagos State Government, on March 31, 2023, brought Chrisland School Limited, Opebi, its principal, vice principal, and two others before the court over the death of one of the school’s students, Whitney Adeniran.
They were charged alongside the school before Justice Oyindamola Ogala.
The defendants are Ademoye Adewale, (Cotton candy vendor), Kuku Fatai, Belinda Amao (Principal), and Victoria Nwatu.
The defendants are standing trial on two counts bordering on involuntary manslaughter as well as reckless and negligent acts levelled against them by the state government.
Whitney Adeniran, 12, was allegedly electrocuted on February 9, 2023, during the school’s inter-house sports activities held in Agege Stadium.
At the resumed hearing of the trial on Monday, Adeniran who is the first prosecution witness narrated this to the court during cross-examination by the school’s counsel Bolaji Ayorinde (SAN).
When asked if Whitney was absent from school on February 2, 2023, due to illness, Adeniran replied,” Yes, she was absent from school, but she was not ill.”
The witness said that on January 20, 2023, the school had called his wife (the deceased’s mother), to inform her that Whitney was ill.
He said that his daughter was then taken to Inland Specialist Hospital at Ikeja and the doctor prescribed some drugs for her to be taken and the dosage but that he didn’t know the name of the drugs.
When asked if he knew the name of the drugs, Adeniran, said that he got to know the name of the drugs from the doctor’s report obtained from the hospital issued on February 16, 2023.
Adeniran listed the names of the drugs to include nitrazepam 5mg and amitriptyline, 12.5mg which he read from an exhibit before the court.
Asked if he was informed by the Agege Central Hospital and Diagnostic Limited that the deceased died of cardiac arrest, the witness replied that he was informed that she died of cardiac arrest.
He told the court that he could not remember anybody informing him that oxygen was administered to her at the hospital.
The witness also told the court that he could not remember if the school nurse mentioned anything about applying cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the deceased.
Hear him, “The Nurse said she tried all she could but that Whitney had already died before taking her out of the stadium.
“She said her eyes had already dilated, but that she could not pronounce her dead because she was not a doctor.”