#Justiceforsylvester: Parents of alleged Dowen College cult members planning to fly them abroad, says deceased father

The father said the school management were wrong to have allowed the five culprits to leave the school without informing the police.

Sylvester Oromoni, the father of the late student of Dowen College Lekki, Lagos, has alleged that parents of students responsible for torturing his son are on the move to fly them out of the country.

“The parents of the boys are wealthy. They withdrew them. The school called the parents to pick their wards; interviewed them. Some of the parents are planning to fly the children out of the country,” Mr Oromoni alleged.

The 12-year-old student, Sylvester Oromoni Junior, was allegedly tortured by his fellow students who pressured him to join a cult group in the school.

Although the school management claimed that the student died as a result of injuries sustained while he played football, videos of his last moments indicated that he was beaten, as his lips were swollen and blood was spotted on his teeth, an indication that he also had injuries in the mouth.

But Mr Oromoni who spoke to The Cable, said his son’s waist was bent and swollen along with one side of his stomach as a result of the torture.

He said the boy repeatedly denied playing football, but maintained that he was tortured by other students who threatened to kill him if he opened up on his ordeal.

“Junior said, ‘mummy, I didn’t play ball; I didn’t fall.’ He jumped off his hostel bed. They kicked him, matched his waist. Other students ran off,” Mr Oromo said.

Other students were also allegedly warned not to tell staff members about the incident.

“They warned Junior to say he sustained injuries while playing ball. They threatened him. If you ask the roommate, they’d all lie. They matched his ribs and waist. All that pain for a 12-year-old,” he said.

The deceased’s father also noted that steps were being taken to seek justice for young Oromoni just as he queried the management for allowing students leave the school premises while investigations were ongoing.

“How can Dowen allow those boys to leave the school without informing the police? The boys are five in number: four are in SS2 while one is in SS1. When the result comes, Nigerians will know the truth,” the father said.

It was alleged in a video shared on Twitter by young Oromoni’s cousin, Perrison, that one of the students was picked up with a convoy around 5:00 a.m. on Thursday, while another allegedly flew over the fence from the premises.

Several attempts to reach the director of students affairs, Lami Williams, and other top representatives of the school for comments were futile.

Since the incident, there has been outrage as many called for a complete shutdown of the school and demanded justice for the 12-year-old with #Justiceforsylvester trending on Twitter.

Meanwhile,the government of Lagos State has shut down Dowen College indefinitely until investigations are concluded.

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Cultism at tender age


Children of these days are something else. One need to devise means to curtail them else they fall to the opposing factors.

#justiceforsylvester ... No peace for the wicked. My mind tells me the school and it's management knows what happened to that boy but you know money has a way of silencing truth, like the man said their parents are wealthy and who knows how much these people mush have taken to cover up the case. At the end the truth will prevail. God help us

The parents who abandoned their 12 year old in a boarding school have failed woefully in parenting and should be arrested and charged for negligence and murder
People are in a hurry to marry and have kids but want to do parenting part time. How about not having kids at all if you can't pay attention to them?
The ones that have turned out as bullies and are now acting like possessed demons are also products of modern day parenting.

The case is likely to be quenched with juvenile excuses for the bullies but apart from that has there ever been any justice in Nigeria?

Our judiciary system is just rubbish including the people in it. Shouldn't there be prosecutors taking up the issues by now, shouldn't the police have arrested those cultist and their parents. Watch as everything will die, just like the way ipob killed Dr. Akunyili gruesomely. Imagine someone who he and his wife spent their whole life trying to make Nigeria great, everyone have forgotten them now.


More of this will happen if those involved are not killed too.

Imagine after some robbers robbed a bank, killed lots of people and stole like 35 millions, and just one of them was caught, and sentenced to 10 years in prison, then what am I still doing in my shop begging people to by my clothes over 50 naira gain.

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In a land filled with mostly useless elders and extremely useless leaders, the destiny of a great nation rests on the shoulders of young men and women who were raised by these same ^{mostly useless elders} and extremely useless leaders

I feel sad reading about Sylvester's death.
I pray his killers meet their Waterloo.

Children below 15years Practicing cultism at that tender age. God help us!

Rest in peace Kiddo.

Gangs and shit.

Instead of that idiotic governor to swing in now na waka waka he dei find up and down

This country doesn't value life

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It's so bad how Moderators will rewrite someone's post on group forum and immediately send it with thier names as Authors.

Back to the topic: I hope Sanwo-olu takes this matter seriously, they need to arrest the School Management and parents of those children, enough is enough oooooo.

The worst thing is to send a wealthy son to school where the teachers are paid little and are poor, they will end up playing a blind eye to the students atrocities, all because of they are afraid of the wealth of thier parents, this has resulted in many wealthy boarding schools to harbour Drug addicts , all because thier teachers and care keepers are afraid to speak to wealthy children or discipline them,

You can't come to government school and Do cultism with your #1000 school fees lollllllll

But because they pay 1 million as school fees in Dowen, they allow whatever to happen, the same with the school close to my area, 500k as school fees, bro cone and see drug addicts for that school, no discipline at all


*am the original author of this story, nairaland moderators hijacked and sent it to front page with thier name *

The students involved and the school authorities need to be prosecuted. I feel bad for the young life wasted and the agony he must have been through. He may have suffered internal bleeding, who knows what was in the concoction given to him.

I hope his father in his younger days didn't have a hand in causing pains to other families?

Sooner or later all the system boys that have been going around killing and maiming will soon start raising families and strongly believe that they will do it in peace without retribution.

Ladies I know that husbands are hard to come by but please investigate the men you want to spend the rest of your life with. Some have killed in the name of cultism or while robbing others of their properties or while trying to make money ritual.

Just like the boys that killed this young boy, their parents will try to get them off the hook. In years to come they also would want to start a peaceful home devoid of pain and anguish from the past.

My only frustration are the innocent souls unsuspecting wife/husband and children born by these monsters that will be at the receiving end.

Please and please let's be guarded so that we don't share in the sorrow and pains that we know nothing about.

1. The school was aware of the cultism activities...
2. The parents of the cultist students knew their children are cultist (they themselves may actually be into cult practices)...
3. Late Sylvester may never get true justice...

Nawa o

What kind of parent puts their children in the boarding school.. ? This is Nigeria..........for crying out loud

children of the rich are always spoilt

If Lagos shuts the school down, what next??

The management, students and individual will all run away... How can the truth ever come out?

NovesaTillie:
The parents who abandoned their 12 year old in a boarding school have failed woefully in parenting and should be arrested and charged for negligence and murder

The school management deserved to be detained till they open up

Deborah98:
#justiceforsylvester ... No peace for the wicked.. At the end the truth will prevail. God help us

No peace for the wicked.. Really..
At the end the truth will prevail.. Really bro.

You guys keep forgetting that Nigeria is a black nation

NovesaTillie:
The parents who abandoned their 12 year old in a boarding school have failed woefully in parenting and should be arrested and charged for negligence and murder

Trashshhh!!!! There's a reason it's called boarding school!

NovesaTillie:
The parents who abandoned their 12 year old in a boarding school have failed woefully in parenting and should be arrested and charged for negligence and murder

Oga how?

Strange times.

This is one of the reasons why I can't put my kids in boarding school

Most of these boarding school only knows how to charge higher school fees but will never put anything in place as security measures

NovesaTillie:
The parents who abandoned their 12 year old in a boarding school have failed woefully in parenting and should be arrested and charged for negligence and murder

In the next edition of oxford dictionary, when they define a stupid person, they should attach your picture as a global example.

Timefarm the lunatic farm animal, come and tell us how this man has another agenda.

Things and things de happen for this wicked world. Is either you hold ur God or gods well, if not grave remain our final orientation. May what we believe continue to guide and protect us.

Apparently the way we lived as youths can't be replicated in the nigeria of today.

Things are alot different now.

Change is constant!

NovesaTillie:
The parents who abandoned their 12 year old in a boarding school have failed woefully in parenting and should be arrested and charged for negligence and murder

what exactly is your point? That a 12 yr old is not old enough for boarding house, or that boarding schools should not exist?

If u knew the atrocities committed in boarding schools u will cringe in trepidation. The truth is that its an unintenrional conspiracy to fail urself as parents these days to keep children in boarding houses