Late Sylvester Oromoni’s uncle has spoken up after two years of his nephew’s demise due to bullying by pupils at the Dowin College in Lagos.
In a series of tweets posted by @perrieonoromoni on X, he reported that one of the accused uncles told Sylvester’s father to forget about the occurrence.
Sylvester Oromoni was a twelve year old pupil in Dowin College, Lagos State who was bullied by some gang of senior students till he lost breath.
Sylvester’s uncle has expressed that it’s been two years since the painful demise of his nephew and still there has been no justice.
He wrote:
“2 years!!! 2 years of pain, anger, excruciating emotional torment and non ending pursuit for justice. I have always known how corrupt and useless the Nigerian justice system is but I never imagined I’d experience it first hand. This boys father was told in court by one of the Accused uncle to forget about the case. Said they’ve got over a million dollars to fight and defend themselves till the world ends. An autopsy was carried out when sly died but was ordered to be done again in Lagos where not only was the result different, each of the families of Accused has their own pathologist present. We got to see how the Nigerian bar association tried to disrupt the case, how the judge called in sick almost every court date, how witnesses were intimidated and basically harassed by the army of lawyers of the 5 accused boys.”
While penning down his grief, Sylvester’s uncle expressed his disappointment at the judiciary system of Nigeria, he also mentioned that he knew the system was corrupt but he never thought he would experience it firsthand.
