After two years of fighting for justice, a 12-year-old former pupil of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos State, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, was laid to rest yesterday.
The ceremony took place at the deceased family’s compound in Ogbe-Ijoh, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State.
It attracted several dignitaries. Emotions were high as family members, friends and well-wishers wept while mourning his (Sylvester’s) untimely death.
Recall that Oromoni, who was allegedly tortured by some senior students of the college, died on November 30, 2021.
His death, which generated condemnation and a series of protests by civil society groups and women across the country as well as heated controversies, has yet to yield any positive results.
The family, through the father of the deceased had vowed while marking the two years anniversary of their son’s brutal and untimely demise, that as a family, they would not stop crying out for justice for their departed son.
“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,” he said.
Sylvester’s father and the family had also threatened that if the inquest was not concluded before the end of 2022, they would be compelled to withdraw from it in order to take a different legal route to seek justice.
