Maduako Igbokwe l Sunday, January 16, 2022
ONITSHA, Anambra – After the death of Master Chidalu Bright Onyekwuluje at the boarding facility at St Michaels Boys Secondary School, Ozubulu Nnewi Anambra state parents have vowed not to send their children to boarding school again.
Prince Cornelius and Ogochukwu Onyekwuluje, parents of Master Chidalu Bright Onyekwuluje who allegedly died due to the negligence by school management vowed that none of their children will ever attend boarding school in life .
Chidalu Bright Onyekwuluje allegedly died at St Michaels Boys Secondary School, Ozubulu, Nnewi local government due to the negligence of school management.
Pained by the lost of their only son,Prince Cornelius Onyekwuluje withdrew their daughters from boarding school in the state.
Prince Onyekwuluje who spoke to journalist in Awka Anambra state said he took the decision to withdraw his other children from boarding school, after an excruciating experience he had from his only son in the hands of the management of a boarding school.
Bright Chidalu had died on December 17, after he took ill in the school, and the management allegedly kept quit, to ensure he finishes his exams, thereby aggravating the health condition of the student, even though the management of the school denied the allegation.
Prince Onyekwuluje said he has withdrawn his two other daughters who are boarders in an all girls Secondary school in Awka, both of who are elder sisters to deceased Chidalu Bright, whom he said was his only son.
He said” Bright is my only son, and having seen the fate that has befallen him in the hands of the school management as a boarder, I have therefore withdrawn my two daughters who are schooling in St John of God Secondary school, Awka.
“I have sat and thought about the things that are happening in boarding schools, including the one at Dowen College, the Deeper Life school in Uyo and now my son in St Michaels Boys College, Ozubulu, and I have concluded that as far as I’m alive, none of my children will ever attend a boarding school in this country anymore.”
“I did not go to school, so my wish is that all my children will go to good schools, to attain education, but you have seen the fate that befell my only son, Bright Chidalu, so I have made up my mind about boarding schools in Nigeria. Bright Onyekwuluje was last two weeks buried in his home town, Uzoakwa, Ihiala, Anambra State”.
