By Igbotako Nowinta
Babajide Sanwo-Olu must not be allowed to fail us again! This case must never be like the others swept under the carpet of political heavyweights. How could the Lagos State Director, Department of Public Prosecution, Adetutu Oshinusi, make us believe that a boy who had an accident (according to authorities of Dowen College) during a football game, could later undergo such harrowing death: with ‘scalded lips, acute lung injury, gastric erosion, internal bruises, etc., as alleged by consultant pathologist, Clement Vhriterhie? This utter concoction by Lagos State authorities has indeed brought a cloud of disbelief and significantly raised public suspicion. I am deeply saddened by this show of man’s inhumanity to man. This unfolding chilling conspiracy is toxic politics in an extreme form, and on a much larger scale; l see tremendous pressure from the affluential and influential parents and guardians of the suspects at work remotely. As l place myself on the same page with the Ijaw Youth Congress ( IYC) on this nauseating development, l passionately call on our country men and women of goodwill and positive minds, to wake up this new year 2022. We must continue to mobilize to safeguard our individual freedom and fundamental human rights. A system that stubbornly places the bloody interest of the privileged few far above the rights of the largest citizens must go up in flames. We are waiting to see how the Lagos State Government nay Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu can quench public fury at the end of the day, if Sylvester Oromoni’s murderers are allowed to return to the Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, without being punished for their heinous crime.
Sylvester Oromoni tragically missed his twelve-year birthday celebration in November 2021, because his seniors at the Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos State, allegedly conspired, beat him to pulp, and fed him a poisonous substance.
In what has become one of the most heartless cases of bullying in recent memory in Nigeria, Sylvester, a class two, Junior Secondary School student of Dowen College, was allegedly cornered in the boarding house by some demonic students, who dealt with him because he resisted the pressure to join their cult group.
Luckily for Sylvester Oromoni’s father, his son had the rarest opportunity to reveal the identities of those who deliberately snuffed life out of him.
Via a viral video last November, Sylvester Oromoni Senior gave graphic details of how his son narrated on his death bed what actually transpired between him and the useless overfed bullies at the Dowen College.
But, today, Police and Lagos State authorities are telling us that Sylvester Oromoni was not murdered; that there was no cult related issues concerning the crude and violent treatment meted to the fallen kid.
This glaring manipulation reminds me of the ghastly scenario that befell the late Prof. (Comrade) Festus Iyayi in 2013. Comrade Festus Iyayi was allegedly assassinated on November 12th, 2013, in Kogi State, enroute Kano, while he was travelling along with colleagues to attend a crucial meeting of the Academic Staff of Universities ( ASUU).
Iyayi was one of the reliable brain boxes of ASUU struggle in Nigeria. In leading a defiant and longest ever strike against the Federal Government of Nigeria, under ex- President Goodluck Jonathan, the authorities staggered and plotted against him.
Those who killed Comrade Iyayi, used a mad driver riding with the then Governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada, to do the havoc. The driver deliberately left the Governor’s convoy, targeted Festus Iyayi, rammed his car into the movement of ASUU comrades.
We expected to see massively bruised dead body of Iyayi, as a result of the planned accident, but a closer look at his corpse, revealed two big holes that ran through his chest from top to bottom. How did he sustain the big hole?
The autopsy report done at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) confirmed the presence of holes, but could not trace the piercings of any bullets (bullets that allegedly blasted Comrade Festus Iyayi into his untimely death).
The heavily grieving Iyayi’s family in 2013, was not interested in probing the controversial death of the late award winning author, pro-democracy and human rights activist, but absolutely devoted to giving him a befitting burial.
So died a cerebral Professor of Business Management, and a great humanist, legendary and fantastic guy to all of us, at the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CDHR).
Therefore, the present Case uu7777 of alleged killing of Sylvester Oromoni, by Favour Benjamin, Michael Kashamu, Edward Begue, Ansel Temile and Kenneth Inyang, along with other staff of the Dowen College is high profile, which naturally attracts systemic manipulation on its own.
We will not succumb nor submit ourselves to the deliberate official cum medical lies and naked half- truth such that was dished out by the authorities of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH in 2013, in the case of the slain Professor (Comrade) Festus Iyayi.
It is incontrovertible that Sylvester Oromoni junior was allegedly sent to his untimely grave by five reckless and wayward kids.
As the Yaba Chief Magistrate of Lagos State handles this case, even as the Coroner’s inquest into the death of Sylvester Oromoni started from January 15, 2022, the role of the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is crucial; he must not allow himself to be used continuously as a shadow of lies or as part of a carefully schemed official resolution machine, to deny justice to the Oromonis.
Just as we know that a more brazen, conscienceless and dangerous wave of government insincerity has engulfed the country recently, looking at the laughable way the Federal Government and the Lagos State Government under Babajide Sanwo – Olu, handled the Lagos #ENDSARS Report, that indicted the authorities of massacre at Lekki.
Babajide Sanwo -Olu must not be allowed to fail us again! This case must never be like the others swept under the carpet of political heavyweights.
How could the Lagos State Director, Department of Public Prosecution, Adetutu Oshinusi, make us believe that a boy who had an accident (according to authorities of Dowen College) during a football game, could later undergo such harrowing death: with ‘scalded lips, acute lung injury, gastric erosion, internal bruises, etc., as alleged by consultant pathologist, Clement Vhriterhie?
This utter concoction by Lagos State authorities has indeed brought a cloud of disbelief and significantly raised public suspicion. I am deeply saddened by this show of man’s inhumanity to man.
This unfolding chilling conspiracy is toxic politics in an extreme form, and on a much larger scale; l see tremendous pressure from the affluential and influential parents and guardians of the suspects at work remotely.
As l place myself on the same page with the Ijaw Youth Congress ( IYC) on this nauseating development, l passionately call on our country men and women of goodwill and positive minds, to wake up this new year 2022.
We must continue to mobilize to safeguard our individual freedom and fundamental human rights. A system that stubbornly places the bloody interest of the privileged few far above the rights of the largest citizens must go up in flames.
We are waiting to see how the Lagos State Government nay Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu can quench public fury at the end of the day, if Sylvester Oromoni’s murderers are allowed to return to the Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, without being punished for their heinous crime.
Nowinta wrote: Where We Are – A Call For Democratic Revolution in Nigeria.
