A 10-year-old Primary five pupil, Fibian Lawal died on the spot while some of her classmates and their teacher sustained injuries after the roof of their classroom at the Local Government Primary School Ajeregun in Ogun state crashed down on them when it started raining heavily on Monday March 9.
Investigations by Punch newspaper revealed that the school building where this unfortunate incident happened was built in 1955 when the school was established. A newly constructed building was by the side of the old school building which was not in use. According to the teachers in the school, they were not making use of the new building even though it was completed in 2014 because it had not been commissioned by the state government.
Adijat Ohize, one of the pupils of the school, while narrating what happened said “We had finished school but we were all waiting for lesson when it began to rain. The other teachers left the school and their pupils, but our aunty did not leave. The rain was blowing into the classroom and our aunty said we should all run to a private school beside our school. I ran and got there, but as Fibian stepped out of the class, her shoes got stuck in the mud on the ground. She started struggling to get out.”she said.Fibian’s younger brother, Okiki also explained what happened “When the teacher asked us to go to the private school because of the rain, I first ran under a mango tree. I saw my sister struggling and I went to help her, but the roof fell on her. My hand was injured. I started shouting her name, but she did not answer me.”. (LIB).