•’Allegations against my child unfounded, decision unfair’

•You may challenge us in court, school management says

Job Osazuwa



A media executive and former Commissioner for Information in Ogun State, Mr. Niran Malaolu and the management of Trinity International College, Ofada, also in Ogun State, are at daggers’ drawn following the expulsion of Malaolu’s daughter from the school.

A Senior Secondary (SS3) student, Oluwademilade Malaolu was expelled from the school over alleged gross misconduct, bullying of fellow students and use of contraband item in the college. And the student was also accused of recording students undergoing punishment and posting same online.

But the father of the girl said there were many questions that were yet to be answered in the allegations against his daughter. He said no one has been able to provide the link to the purported video. Also, he said no student has so far come to validate the physical injuries inflicted on her, as raised by the school management. Therefore, he said such expulsion must be reversed and Oluwademilade should be allowed to attend her graduation.

But the Board Chairman of the college, Pastor S. O. Olatunji, told the reporter on the telephone that Malaolu was only shying away from the truth. He said the management and board of the school would not take such decision in a hasty manner but only after thorough investigations, which went through four phases.

Insisting that there was nothing anyone could do about the expulsion, which he said was in line with the code and conduct of the college, he advised the aggrieved parent to go to court if he is not satisfied with the decision of the school rather than seeking public sympathy.

He expressed disappointment over Malaolu’s reaction to the punishment meted out to the alleged erring student. He said the same law applies to every student in the school.

As gathered, trouble started on June 30, 2019, when Mr. Malaolu got a text message from the school asking him, as a matter of urgency, to see the college administrator in her office immediately after the Parents Teachers Association’s (PTA) meeting.

Malaolu said he and his wife were alarmed by the message, especially as they were not in Nigeria at that moment. He said they started making frantic efforts to call the necessary people to ascertain what the exact problem was.

He said he finally got across to the Principal, Senior School (PSS), Mrs. O. R. Adeyemo the following morning, noting that she thereafter broke the news to him that his daughter had done something that is capable of dragging the name of the school in the mud.

In a letter he wrote to Pastor Olatunji, the distraught father said: “The PSS told me that ‘Oluwademilade lost her hand-fan and after lights-out at 12.00 midnight, then she packed all the SS1 students out of their hostel, lined them out on the lawn and punished them for hours.’

“I was alarmed. And I said why would she do that when she’s not their teacher or housemother. I apologised for her misdemeanour and reiterated the fact that we weren’t in the country. She said the issue had thrown the whole college into commotion, as it disrupted the PTA meeting, with some aggrieved parents threatening to take the school to court. She restated the need for me to see the college administrator urgently. I told her I would quickly begin to look for a flight immediately. We got a flight to Accra on Thursday, July 4, from where we then flew to Lagos. Our physical and emotional state is better imagined than narrated.”

He narrated that he and his wife went straight to the school upon arriving in Lagos. “The PSS then said ‘that Oluwademilade tortured the SS1 students, inflicted bodily injuries on them and then videoed them nude and posted the video online. She opened her safe and brought out the phone (exhibit) with which Oluwademilade purportedly committed the act. I almost collapsed on my seat. I was shaken to the bone marrow with guilt and sorrow.

“Thereafter, the PSS took us to the college administrator who repeated the same story. We felt so ashamed that my wife burst into tears, right there in the college administrator’s office. But we were comforted when the college administrator said that Oluwademilade had been made to realise her error via punishment by isolation since Sunday, June 30. She had apologised to the concerned students at the assembly, we were told, and that the punishment was not meant to destroy her but to correct her.

“The PSS added that the whole incident has had an impact on Oluwademilade as, for the first time, she has seen Oluwademilade broken. While we apologised profusely, the college administrator told us that there would be further consequences: that Oluwademilade would not be allowed to attend the graduation, and that she would also be expelled from the college.

“We were dazed, but we took the ‘decree’ with spiritual equanimity. We requested to see her, but we were not obliged as we were told to return the next day, July 5. We felt deflated and disappointed. We were angry with our own daughter. Why won’t we? The case against her was well-marshalled and carefully presented that any judge, no matter how benevolent, would immediately order her summary execution.

“Again, we had another ‘night of the long knife.’ I had to be sedated, as I couldn’t sleep. However, we returned to the college on July 5, and the PSS took us to the college administrator. There, we were given the letter of expulsion. Afterwards, we picked her up and drove her home.

However, we noticed that she had lost weight and had been drained emotionally. Who would not be? As we didn’t want to aggravate things, we deferred asking for her side of the story till the following day.

“We resumed calling the parents of the complainant-students to tender our heartfelt apology. We spoke to many of the parents and it was then that we found out the gross inconsistencies in the stories we have been fed all along.

“On July 6, I asked Oluwademilade for her side of the story. Her version corroborated the stories of the parents of the complainant-students. I asked her if she inflicted bodily harm on the students, videoed them nude and posted same online. She denied doing all that vehemently. It was at that point that my daughter tumbled over. She started gasping for breath. And we had to rush her to the hospital.”

He said it was shameful to him that his daughter took part in such an act and described it as condemnable, but Malaolu argued that the allegation has conveniently buried the notion of cause and effect, as key aspect in behavioural analysis.

He stated: “The allegation insinuates that my daughter just woke up, like a sadist unfit for human habitation, and marched a group of 29 students to Golgotha. Why the causality of the incident was buried baffles me. The truth is that Esther Ajuwa came to my daughter searching for her hand-fan. The colour of Esther’s hand-fan is green while Oluwademilade’s is white. She (Esther) claimed that the missing hand-fan, which was borrowed from a JS1 student, was stolen. Oluwademilade followed her in search of the stolen hand-fan. The said hand-fan was found in the locker of a certain SS1 student in Room 9. Why the investigations conveniently overlooked that fact is mind-boggling.”

On the nude video that was posted online, he said: “The phone with my daughter has no SIM card and is incapable of posting anything online. Besides, every equipment capable of posting materials online have identifiable IP address. Such IP addresses are traceable with location, date and time. The investigators probably misled the college administrator as they did the entire board.”

But the board chairman said apart from other processes of the investigations, almost all the victims as well as Oluwademilade, have written separate statements to validate the act.

But Malaolu faulted the claim. He said: “The investigators probably forgot to disclose that they made Oluwademilade to write her statement four separate times as they kept coming back dictating to her what to write and how to write it. They probably forgot that a statement gotten by coercion is a nullity before the law.

“I have spoken to some of the parents of the complainant-students, including the parent that raised the issue at the meeting. I asked them if their wards had any bodily injuries. They all answered in the negative. I asked if they had seen the ‘nude’ video of their children online and on which website. They all answered in the negative. Also, neither my wife nor I have been shown the video and the online site where the so-called evidence was posted. I wonder if the Board members have seen these ‘magical videos’ too? Therefore, if these clandestine and elusive videos are the evidence upon which Oluwademilade had suffered unimaginable mental, physical and psychological torture, including isolation like a prisoner, then, it is obvious that there’s a sinister motive at play.

“I know that Demilade is outspoken and I understand that that ‘attribute’ has made her a target of some of your officials. Sir, I am also not unaware that every incident in the college that involved her, no matter how insignificant, has ended in serious tongue-lashing or dressing down. On such occasions, she had been called ‘a failure,’ ‘a fool,’ ‘someone without morals,’ ‘someone who has no Jesus in her,’ ‘someone whose marriage will fail,’ ‘someone without home training’, among others.

“When a child is bombarded with such negative vibes in a particular environment, it is understandable that such a child, as parenting experts and child psychologists have posited, would also react to that loveless and hateful milieu. Sir, I want to believe that there are records of your staff meetings. If you interrogate such records, you would begin to understand how Oluwademilade had been a target with unending threats to de-badge her.”

Malaolu said since his daughter has written a letter of apology for each of the students; apologised before the whole school; to the school management; and taken round by the same parent who raised the issue at the PTA meeting to beg the other parents and the teachers, the expulsion was too harsh on her.

He, therefore, appealed to the management of the school, to reverse the expulsion and allow Oluwademilade to attend her graduation.

Also speaking with the reporter, the college administrator, Mrs Titi Akintemi said going to this level even when the aggrieved father knew the truth was least expected of him. She said Malaolu was out to rubbish the reputation of the college.

She said apart from Oluwademilade, another student was expelled over the same issue, revealing that the latter’s parents took it in good faith.

“This thing has been established because we set up a disciplinary committee to look into it. I don’t know why he is running to the press,” she said.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/ex-commissioner-battles-ogun-school-over-daughters-expulsion/

Lubbish

The court will settle this matter........in the end!

So Bleep what, he is ex-commissioner ?

I think She is guilty of all the offences levelled against her

Btw the long chronicle didn't dispute that fact

Things like this happen all the time because of lack of care on the part of the parents

Nevertheless they shouldn't have let it become an issue to this point of getting to the news.

She could have been made to enter Uni from an external centre or better still travel abroad

All this one na story. Seniors did worse to us in boarding school. Your daughter is guilty. QED

Well after going thru this write,I must say it's none of my business

Na wa oo...serious matter

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

That's why we have rotten kids today. Instead of joining the school to discipline the daughter, the father, because he's an ex commissioner is fighting the school for expelling his kids for coming to school with banned substances, bullying other kids and videoing othee kids undergoing punishment and posting online.

He should educate his kid at home where he can let her rot as much as he wants

Good to know that some schools stand strongly against bullying.
This used to be the norm back in the days and it is still very common in government-owned
schools where some miscreants who brand themselves as "seniors" treat students in junior
classes like slaves.

The society is then left to deal with angry and emotionally abused young adults.

The commissioner should head to court!

Your daughter didn't deny punishing her juniors at the middle of night, she only denied filming and posting the action on online. You are only after consequences of her action without talking about those children she tortured. Are you saying her victims don't have parents to rant on their behalf too?
She should count her self lucky that she has finished her studies and written her final exams. What is graduation compare to torture and trauma she made her juniors to pass through.
If you are not satisfied go to court. You are only reaping how you trained your daughter.

I pity failed parents that dump kids in boarding school thinking they will become better, train your children yourself, nobody can do it better than you,

most of us that attended boarding school can attest to this, that she can actually do it especially if you begin to write the exams, those junior ones are really in mess, so they always like to avoid them because they can overdo

Demonic seniors who result to bullying Their junior ones.The likes of Ononiwu Rosemary who made sure no junior in OGHS then had peace.She would punish us until our bodies bled but the school authorities would shield her and her likes,telling us that it is the norm in the boarding.
Your daughter is fucking guilty,the School should punish her Well to send a message to other bullies.

Reprimand your ward going forward. I know that school. Has on offer the best you want for a child in school. By the way, who is Niran Malaolu? The answer should explain the conduct of his ward as well as his own attitude in all of these! Not far from asking who is Kemi Olunloyo and finding in her father the answer to the question!

The fact that any so-called parent, would disturb the peace of the public because thwir child was expelled for bullying, says a lot about their parenting

He shoukd be ashamed that he and his wife trained a soulless sadist that thrives upon inflicting sorrow upon others. This is what happens when parents hand over the training of their children to strangers, while gallivanting around the world with little to no sense of responsibility. This man and his wife must be a part of that league of people that think throwing money at everything will make it all better.

He ought to stay silent and retrain that monster he calls a child, so that she is not unleashed upon the world to do greater evil, this is the kind of girl that will grow up to abuse her maids, and her parents will keep clapping for her

I am sure his next point of duty will be to enroll her for SAT and TOEFL, then send her to some college abroad, as reward for all of her good deeds in Nigeria.

Please who has panadol?

KngGezy:
I think She is guilty of all the offences levelled against her

Btw the long chronicle didn't dispute that fact

Things like this happen all the time because of lack of care on the part of the parents

Nevertheless they shouldn't have let it become an issue to this point of getting to the news.

She could have been made to enter Uni from an external centre or better still travel abroad

Travel abroad! Her parents were both abroad when they should be at the PTA. But for God she is certain to end up worse abroad. I hope the parents change for the better and in good time. It is obvious the parents need self-examination. We all do!

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KngGezy:
I think She is guilty of all the offences levelled against her

Btw the long chronicle didn't dispute that fact

Things like this happen all the time because of lack of care on the part of the parents

Nevertheless they shouldn't have let it become an issue to this point of getting to the news.

She could have been made to enter Uni from an external centre or better still travel abroad

He is not disputing the fact that his daughter is innocent of the whole allegations and they felt sorry about it and apologized to the school management and victims parents but if the school management can't provide a hardcore evidence of the nude videos and body harm injuries sustained by the students, then they have no right to expel her and please tell me you won't fight for your ward if her school melts such injustice at her. Am sure they will have gone home in peace if the school management were able concrete evidence on all they accused his daughter of doing.

I attended one of the best secondary school in Nigeria, Mayflower School Ikenne. I can tell you for free that seniors can be compared to dare devils when they are left with junior students. I remember steevo back in the days, this guy wuld beat us for no reason, he would tell you to give him milk and when u give him an excuse that you have not opened it, he will tell u to shw him thereafter he will dip his spoon to tear the seal of d milk and the next tin u hear is "sebi u don cut am now, oya give me". Terrence igwe nko, he is not left out, if u eat indomie in his hostel (b4up), u r in trouble, sikiru raheem nko, he will steal ur milk and still give u to drink. Atilade (big dadda) nko, he will cut ur bed and use it to clean his shoe, to mention just a few. Until one day Segun kilanfe and pasco saved us, sege (killer) beat the hell out of one of d seniors den and also pasco was a trained marshal art guy, if u beat us, we report to pasco, u don die b dat and mind u pasco ws in jss2 as at dat time.

Guilty as charged. I am happy and proud of the school.

Mr .Malaolu,this news is not good for Rockcity f.m Radio station.
Koomore kole funoo nisimi.
She is even a Girl for that matter.
Omaseeooo

Not my circus, not my monkey.


Next please!

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mamaafrik:
Mr .Malaolu,this news is not good for Rockcity f.m Radio station.
Koomore kole funoo nisimi.
She is even a Girl for that matter.
Omaseeooo

The man is very foolish. Now we all know he is incapable of training his children.

I would call in on those morning programs and use him as an example of failed leadership that his radio presenters keep talking about.

Was obviously a spoilt kid who felt she was above the law

Prevent her from graduating. She's not worth adding as alumni to the great school

How can you punish junior students of an entire SS1 section as a senior student who felt they stole your ordinary hand fan, n*aked, afraid and in the middle of the night? All the while filming and beating them up? She should be sent to prison infact

That was how a rich spoilt child was left to drown by his friends, when he jumped in the pool and couldn't swim, I'm not saying it is right, but i wonder how mean he must have been to them in real life to warrant that kinda inaction in dire need