SO SO SAD! Best Student & Only Child Dies After High Jump During His School’s Inter-house Sports In Abuja
Michael Paul Ogbe, a 16-year-old SS3 student of ASACS International Staff College, Bwari, Abuja, has been reported dead, caused serious head injuries he sustained after a high jump during the school’s inter-house sports on March 1, 2017.
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His shocked mother, Marian Nnanna Ogbe, has called for a probe of the incident and justice over the untimely death of her only son, who lost his father when he was 4.
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The late Michael was the best science student of the school.
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Sources claimed that Michael would have survived if he was rushed immediately to the hospital for treatment.
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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.
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When Authorityngr newspaper called the proprietor, Chief A.B. Ekwere, who also owns Dorben Polytechnic in Bwari, he declined to speak.
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All the subsequent calls were not picked.
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Mrs Ogbe, who said she single-handedly brought up Michael, lamented that she was not immediately informed when the incident occurred.
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She got to the hospital to meet her son already packaged for the mortuary.
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She lamented that if only she was called immediately, she would have taken him to a private specialist hospital for adequate medical attention.
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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.
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Quote “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.
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“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.
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"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 givingme back a dead one. It wouldn’t have taken me 40 minutes to get to the school,” she lamented.