12-year-old student dies at Chrisland School's event

Because of yet another scandal involving one of its kids, Chrisland Schools is once again in the spotlight.

Outrage was generated by a video showing a female student engaging in immoral behavior with her schoolmates at a tournament in Dubai last year.

This time, sentiments are being brought on by the passing of Whitney Adeniran, a 12-year-old student.

At the school's inter-house sporting event on Thursday at Agege Stadium, Adeniran reportedly lost her life.

Micheal Adeniran, the child's father, spoke on the unfortunate event and stated that his daughter was not ill when the school bus brought her up for the occasion.

“To the biggest shock of my life by 1 pm in the afternoon, I got a call from my wife that she was informed that our daughter slumped at the inter-house sport and she was rushed to the clinic.”

“My wife was at the venue even before the event started. She was never informed or called until they have conveyed our child out of the venue before they informed her. On arrival of my wife at the health center where they took my daughter. my daughter was lying dead with her lips black and her tongue black.”

“My wife called me urgently, I left my office to the place and found my 12year old daughter lying dead on the ground. I asked questions about what happened to my daughter and the school authority could not get me any information as to what happened to my child in their care.

“I gave Chrisland school a healthy vibrant young girl what Chrisland returned to me is a dead child. My entire family is in deep sorrow but the school Authorities claimed they know nothing about my daughter’s death and all they know is that my daughter slumped and died.

“My question is what happened to my daughter at Agege stadium? As a father, I demand answers from Chrisland International High School. I am in deep pain and sorrow right now. If you are a father you will understand my pain. My daughter is highly loved by us. We cherished her existence and we can never allow an institution to gloss over the death of our daughter.”

“Since we started asking this question. The school has been asking us to back down from the autopsy and I know they know their way into the system. I am calling on the pathology department of @lasuth to please be honest with their result. Lagos State government, Nigerian Government, please intervene,” the bereaved father wrote in a social media post.

In response to the tragic incident, the school administration also issued a press statement on Sunday to clarify what had happened.

Benjamin Hundeyin, the public relations officer for the Lagos State Police, confirmed that an inquiry was being conducted into the incident and that the required steps were being taken.

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