Imagine as a parent, you drop your toddler off at a nursery; although this topic calls it "school", and then you are told that he drank 'caustic soda!!!', and is dead.
This incident is beyond imagination and I strongly wonder what the standard of this so called school is. Is any child safe to be left in this "private" school? What are the staff like? what training have they undergone? Are they really qualified to be employed to care for children?
I do not understand how a toddler could reach a bottle of soda, neither can i understand the need of caustic soda in the learning environment for toddlers.
According to Daily Post, the toddler had undergone six different surgeries, and still died. It also added the bitter bereavement of the toddlers mother, but surprisingly, nothing was done or is yet done in regards to the school authority where this drastic incident happened.
Daily post however, said that the Ogun state Government had investigated the school; "very belated investigation, if I may say ", and came to this conclusion:
“There was a full investigation. But because there was no hard evidence, it became difficult to take the issue up legally. We combed the premises of the school and nothing was found, probably because time had elapsed and the school might have cleaned up,” Mujota said.
I cannot begin to imagine what this toddlers parents would be feeling, but one thing I believe is that the Local Governments are neither protecting their citizen nor providing for them.
This kind of atrocity can only happen where the system has allowed it. Lack of payment of salaries by Government and Private Firms is continuously leading staff toward unimaginable behaviours and deals; for example, staff who should be supporting and caring for the pupils at schools become traders within the school premises. All dealing on their own personal interests. Enough is Enough! How many more of this must the Government entertain?
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