Deeper Life School: Parents of abused child demand N100m compensation

Akpan Umoh

Parents of the alleged abused 11 years old JSS1 student at Deeper Life High School, Idoro in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State are demanding N100 million compensation from the school authority.

The parents of the abused child, Mr and Mrs Iniobong Archibong made this known through a letter, which was signed by David Okokon of the Eagle-Eyes Network Chambers.

The letter is titled: “Gross child abuse, palpable molestation, serial bullying, criminal starvation, malicious oppression, and dubious maltreatment of Master Don-Davies Archibong (11 years old) by the Principal and Boarding Master at Deeper Life Secondary School, Uyo.”

In the letter dated December 22, 2020, addressed to the school’s principal, and obtained by journalists on Friday in Uyo, the parents gave the school authority 21 days to pay the N100 million compensation.

The letter reads in part, “We are solicitors to Mr and Mrs Iniobong Archibong, resident in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, herein after referred to as our client. We have the firm explicit and unequivocal instructions to write to you on the above subject matter.

“It is indeed provocatively heartbroken, morally suicidal, religiously hypocritical that our client, 11 years old son was torrentially bombarded with physical and inhuman torture of debilitating dimension with resultant castration of his human person, dignity, and childhood innocence.

“We respectfully demand the payment of N100,000,000 within 21 days of the receipt of this letter as compensation to assuage the dehumanizing, horrendous torture and indignity our client’s son was subjected to and for his medical check and medication.”

The lawyer said, already, Akwa Ibom State government, Wednesday, backed down from investigating the matter and handed over the case to police.

The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Ini Ememobong, who stated this Thursday in Uyo, appealed to the public to exercise patience for a thorough investigation to be carried out by the police and other relevant institutions.