Rebecca Ejifoma
The entire Lagos Police Force and Child Protection Network Lagos are haunting one Ada Samuel Onyengo following the brutal death and swift burial of 12 years old, Ifunnaya Ugueli last night in the home of her serial physical abuser.
The late Ifunanya’s was a primary four pupil of Kusoru Primary School at Ilasamaja before her abrupt death on July 20. Onyengo was said to have constantly beaten her on her head with stirring stick locally called turning Eba.
Before the death of Ifunanya, she was said to have written a letter of complaint at the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) office after her school saw her with swollen eyes. When the aunt was summoned, she claimed Ifunanya had malaria and typhoid.
Child Protection Network (CPN) Coordinator for Oshodi-Isolo, Mr. Ebenezer Omejalile, said that one week after she was returned to her home, she was reported dead. “I spoke with this child three weeks ago. She was pleading that I don’t send her aunt to prison”.
He told THISDAY that SUBEB was said to have given her back to her abuser to do an undertaken never to beat the child again and to further treat the child. “I was shocked when I got the report that the little girl died last week and buried immediately”.
Therefore, in a swift response on Wednesday evening, the DPO of Ago station, CSP Oyin Adamu, mobilised a team of policemen, rescuers from CPN and THISDAY to the resident at 107 Femi Lilla Street, Ilasamaja. The alleged abuser and her husband were not home. The two men found in the one-room apartments eloped immediately.
Meanwhile, the police called the guardian, Ada, who was said to have gone to her business place at Ilasamaja. She was I stricter to report to the Ago station first thing tomorrow morning.
“How could they have returned the child to the home of her abuser? This boils down to the issue of mandating perpetrators to put down in writing or settling out of court. The end justifies it all,” he lamented.
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