This was even as another investigative report from the police confirmed that a child whose mother raised the alarm that necessitated the minister’s action,was actually molested by a senior student of the school.But in a swift response,the petitioner and mother of one of the alleged abused children,Dr Hannatu Usman Ayuba, who failed to appear before the committee during its assignment, dismissed the report.
“In their report, the committee indicated that all efforts to get the petitioner to appear before it failed, as she kept citing various excuses, including attending a course and travelling out of Abuja. “No parent reported any missing child or of children dying in the school at least for the past five years. The medical team I had mentioned earlier which comprised 12 doctors from both the public and private sectors, carried out a random medical examination on 170 out of the 630 children of the school and did not find any evidence to support this claim.
“ Parents should be allowed access to hostels of special schools on visiting days or designated days to assess the living conditions of their children because of their circumstances. Adamu said from the report,”there was no attempt on the part of anyone to influence the work of these noble men and women who were carefully selected and tasked to establish the veracity or otherwise of a set of allegations that brought tears to the eyes of well-meaning parents and relevant stakeholders who first heard the shocking claims.”
“However, the doors are still open for her to come forward and testify. This is because as things stand today, this report is inconclusive as her major allegation of her son’s abuse has not been conclusively established nor can it be dismissed with a wave of the hand,”he added.
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