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  • Dowen College Board promises to enhance oversight policies

    Dowen College Board promises to enhance oversight policies

    The Board of Governor’s of Dowen college has expressed readiness to enhance safeguarding, and monitoring processes and policies to ensure better oversight functions within the school.

    The Board said it is reviewing its policies with parents, staff and students to ensure strict compliance and adherence to best practices going forward.

    They made this disclosure in a statement signed by Tomi Borisade and issued to newsmen on Thursday afternoon.

    Borisade said that the school authority will not hesitate to relieve anyone responsible for administrative lapses in the duties of their positions in the review process.

    Tomi noted that the school is keen on ensuring that this type of situation never arises again.

    The Board stated it would pass the baton of change to a new generation of seasoned professionals who will run with the vision, leadership passion, commitment and values they have worked rigorously to establish.

    It stated that such would enhance communication and effectiveness with the Parents Teachers Forum even as the board has also decided to bring in external consultants to work with the management of the school over the next few months to ensure that high standards and best practices are upheld and implemented where they are needed.

    The Governor’s also stated that the College has been working with the Lagos State Ministry of Education and taken on board their guidance and suggestions with regard to various areas of improvement.

    It promised to implement infrastructural changes to the hostels and school facilities to enhance safety and oversight within the school premises.

    “We have worked on enhancing our safeguarding, monitoring processes and policies to ensure better oversight functions within the school.

    “We are reviewing our policies with our parents, staff and students to ensure strict compliance and best practices are adhered to going forward.

    “As we review our processes, the school authority will not hesitate to relieve anyone responsible for administrative lapses in the duties of their positions.

    “We are keen on ensuring that this type of situation never arises again.

    “The founding members of the Board of Governors including the Founder and Chairman of the Board, Dr. Olumide Phillips (PhD, FNSE, FNSChe, FAEng) who have worked tirelessly over the years to develop outstanding children both in and out of the school, have chosen to retire and pass the baton of change to a new generation of seasoned professionals who will run with the vision, leadership passion, commitment and values they have worked rigorously to establish.

    “This will also enhance communication and effectiveness with the Parents Teachers Forum. Their good works cannot be allowed to go in vain and they are keen to ensure that Dowen College stands shoulder to shoulder with the best schools both in and out of the country.

    “The Board of Governors has also decided to bring in external consultants to work with the management of the school over the next few months to ensure that high standards and best practices are upheld and implemented where they are needed.

    “We have been working with the Lagos State Ministry of Education and taken on board their guidance and suggestions with regard to various areas of improvement.

    “We will implement infrastructural changes to the hostels and school facilities to enhance safety and oversight within the school premises.” It stated.

    Meanwhile, The Board prayed that Sylvester’s soul rest in perfect peace and God grant the Oromoni family the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss, adding that his demise has left everyone of them at Dowen College deeply saddened.

    Borisade said Dowen College Lagos has been able to build a strong exemplary educational institution with high moral values and a culture of enviable track record over the past 24 years.

    “A few weeks ago, the school experienced the unfortunate loss of a promising young student Slyvester Oromoni. May his soul rest in perfect peace and may God grant the Oromoni family the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss.

    “We pray we will never experience such an unfortunate incident in our community again. Slyvester’s demise has left all of us at Dowen College deeply saddened.

    “Over the past 24 years, Dowen College Lagos has been able to build a strong exemplary educational institution with high moral values and a culture of enviable track record.” It said.

  • Dowen: Lagos residents ask Govt to tender apology to parents of students wrongfully alleged

    Some residents in Lagos state have demanded of the state government an unreserved apology to parents of accused students of Dowen College that were wrongfully accused of complicity in the death of a 12-year old student, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr.

    It would be recalled that the Lagos state government cleared the five accused Dowen College students of complicity in the death of Sylvester Oromoni (Jnr), a deceased pupil of the school.

    In the same vein, The Commissioner of Police, AIG Hakeem Odumosu maintained that the command on its part had concluded the investigation into the death of the 12 -year old Junior Secondary School 2 student and found the three Housemasters and five students earlier arrested in connection with his death, not culpable of the allegation of murder.

    In a statement issued by the management of the school, it stated that two of the boys mentioned are day students with no connections to the hostel and a third boy mentioned was a regular weekly boarder who goes home each weekend for home tutoring even as he was not in the hostel over the weekend.

    Speaking on the issue, An Enterprenuer, Barnabas Alejo said the parents of the boys should demand an apology from the relevant quarters because the boys must have gone through psychological trauma in the process.

    Barnabas stated that the whole case should be dismissed, disregarded and thrown away if three out of the five suspected boys were absent at the time and scene of the incident according to reports.

    He explained that the boys were locked up for some days for offence they know not according to the investigations carried out by both the police and the Lagos state government.

    He further explained that the trauma on the boys would not only be psychological but also sociological as it would affect their relationship with other peers.

    Alejo, therefore, stated that the parents should do everything within the law to make sure that this is done in order to save the lives of the boys.

    Sholape Tobola said the incident could lead them to depression since the public have tagged them what they are not despite being exonerated.

    She also stated that the case is not tenable since three of the boys mentioned were absent at the scene and time, adding that may the departed soul of Sylvester oromoni rest in perfect peace.

    Tobola said there is need for the parents to demand apology from the government so that the boys can regain confidence in the society.

    Another resident, Cynthia Odumegwu expressed pity at the accused boys, stating that there is urgent need to readjust them to life considering the social media name-calling and stigmatization.

    Cynthia cited an instance of a girl who came to social media to wrongfully accused a boy of rape and consequently the boy went into depression and committed before she could come out to say it was falsehood and regarded it as a joke.

    While commiserating with the family of the deceased, She advised the parents of the accused boys to watch them closely as such situation might lead them to depression and consequently suicide.