Family of deceased 16-year-old Aburi Girls SHS student demands independent probe
The family of a 16-year-old student of Aburi Girls Senior High School who died on Sunday are demanding independent investigations into the circumstances that caused her death.
Stacy Okyere, a Form 1 student, who was admitted to the school only a month ago, died on February 4.
The family say the inaction of the school caused the death of their daughter.
“The school has killed my child”, father of Miss Okyere, Kingsley Okyere told 3News in an exclusive interview.
This accusation has been denied by a highly placed source from Aburi Girls Senior High School. The source said, the young lady did not die in the school.
Nevertheless, Kingsley Okyere says his daughter who is also his first child had no underlining condition and wants the school to provide a more detailed explanation of the circumstances leading to her death.
Distraught and visibly angry, he says the school should have taken his daughter as a first measure to the hospital, but claims they demanded he arrives from home to do that himself.
“I received a call at 8pm on Sunday 4th February from my daughter’s housemistress. She asked me to come and pick my daughter up to the hospital, because she was sick. I even felt it was too late, but I still decided to go. On my way the woman kept calling almost every two minutes, I was even angry because I expected her to at least send my daughter to the hospital first before calling me”, he told our news team.
“I used 34 minutes from Ablekuma to Aburi girls. I was driving at top speed and was even stopped by the police who later understood it was an emergency.”
Mr. Okyere says his checks show his daughter reported ill at noon but when he arrived at the school and specifically, at the Edinburg House in the school, he witnessed a scene that shocked him.
Source:3news.com
