By Felix Khanoba
Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Abuja, has denied reports making rounds in some quarters that the autopsy result into the death of its student, Keren Akpaghe, indicted the school.
Acting Principal of the school, Mr Chris Akinsowon, said the result was yet to be released as it was conducted on Wednesday and will likely take some days before it will be out.
Akinsowon, who made this known while addressing newsmen in Abuja, expressed concern that some groups have taken it upon themselves to spread fake news on the death of the 14-year-old Karen.
He said the senior secondary school 1 student left Premiere Academy in stable health condition on 19 May 2021 with her mother only to be told after two days that her condition deteriorated.
While commiserating with the parents over the death of the student, the school said Keren was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes Mellitus before admission into the school and had been on daily Insulin Injection during her stay in the school.
The acting principal also raised an alarm that there could be a smear campaign targeting the school following its high academic performance of its students year-in year-out.
He appealed to Nigerians to wait for the autopsy result and ongoing investigation being carried out by the Nigeria Police to ascertain the cause of Karen’s death.
On the allegation that the late student was raped with a condom found on her private part, the matron of the school, Grace Salami, said such could not have happened in the school.
“The statement did not add up to me because a condom is a latex not meant to be decayed. If you tell me that a condom must have been in that enclosure for a long period of time, maybe for months or years.
” If it was actually decaying, we must not see spermatozoa there again. So, I was not convinced. That was why I pressed further to see the doctor and see all the items,” she said.
