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Sylvester Oromoni: Family Press on with Justice Demands

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Tapre Timine
Published: June 15, 2025
Last updated: June 15, 2025
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After one year of the demise of
Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, a student of Dowen College Lekki, Lagos State, the family has continued to demand justice for their son.

Oromoni had reportedly died in controversial circumstances on November 30, 2021.

It was said that he died as a result of bullying, assault, negligence, and an administration of a poisonous substance in the school.

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However, a coroner inquest ordered by the Lagos State Government to unravel the cause of death, which commenced on January 21, 2022, at the Magistrate Court, Epe (now Magistrate Court 20, Ogba) was yet to be concluded.

The father of the deceased student, Mr Sylvester Oromoni, said in a signed statement made available to journalists in Warri, Delta State on Tuesday, that if the inquest is not concluded before the end of this year, he would be compelled to withdraw from it “in order to take a different legal step to seek justice.”

He recalled that the coroner’s inquest of the Ikoyi building collapse of 2021 where 52 persons died did not take this protracted time.

According to him, the inquest on the Ojota Yoruba rally where one Miss Jumoke Oyeleke died had since been concluded.

The statement partly read:

“As the father of the deceased, I cannot be tired or discouraged from pursuing justice as I have promised my son to get him justice even if it will take thirty years to achieve it.

“Today, November 30, 2022 makes it a year since the demise of my son and the body is still in the morgue, yet to be buried. This one-year memorial being held today is to tell Nigerians and the entire world about the current position of the inquest and the antics of Dowen College.

“I am equally aware that some civil society organisations and NGOs in Abuja and Lagos are equally observing the one-year memorial today to mark his one-year untimely demise.

“May the soul of Sylvester Oromoni (Jnr.) and all departed souls rest in perfect peace. Amen.

“At this point, I wish to call on the Honourable Coroner to please do the needful by urgently bringing the inquest to an end as Nigerians and the entire world are waiting for the dispensation of justice in this case as justice delayed, is justice denied.

“This struggle is not only about my late son, but my own way of preventing the future occurrence of this tragic incident.

“In the same vein, we equally urge the Lagos State Government, as a matter of urgency to charge Dowen College and all the staff who had earlier been recommended for prosecution in the DPP Advice of 30th day of December, 2021 to court.

“Already, Dowen College has since the commencement of this Coroner put a lot of things in order in the school premises which were not available at the material time.

“You may wish to know that the installation of CCTV cameras and a football pitch have been provided as against the former concrete basketball court which was being used.

“I must state categorically that if this inquest is not concluded before the end of this year, I shall be compelled to withdraw from it in order to take a different legal step to seek justice.”

It was gathered that the legal advice earlier issued by the office of the Director of Public Prosecution, Ministry of Justice, Lagos State indicted Dowen College and some of its staff and recommended them for prosecution under Section 252 of the Criminal Law (C17) Vol. 3 Laws of Lagos State 2015.

Reports added that these individuals listed were walking freely while the body of the deceased remained in the morgue.

With the effort of the Honourable Coroner and the cooperation of several parents particularly the parents of the two witnesses who came from Abuja to testify on November 14, 2022, the coroner thereafter adjourned proceedings to November 21, 2022, for Dowen College to produce the two remaining witnesses from the school.

However, the school reportedly refused to provide these two witnesses who were currently in Dowen College on the said November 21, 2022, to enable them to testify before the coroner.

The inquest was hence adjourned to November 28, 2022. Unfortunately, the coroner could not also sit on this date owing to the unavailability of the said two witnesses from Dowen College.

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