Three children abandoned in a boarding school in Abule-Iroko in
the Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State are longing
to meet their parents who have abandoned them for eight years.
When PUNCH Metro visited Solid Model College, the children
recounted their ordeal, noting that the absence of their parents
was affecting their studies.
Seun Adepegba, 14,Seyi, 10 and Titilola, 13, had been severed
from parental love and care since infanthood. After waiting for
eight years, they seemed to have relinquished all hopes of
reuniting with their parents.
It was learnt that their tale of sorrow began in 2007 when their
father, Mr Segun Adepegba, who had been separated from their
mother, enrolled them in the boarding school because he could not
afford to take care of them.
According to the proprietor of the school, Mr Samuel Ayegbusi,
Adepegba came to enroll them in his school on September 24,
2007 with a promise to always check on them.
He said, “Mr. Adepegba told me his wife had just left him and that
he could not afford to take care of them, being a jobless man. The
children were very little. Seyi was two, while Titilola was five.
“Mr Adepegba had pleaded with me to accept them in the boarding
school. Mr Adepegba’s sister promised to bear the cost of their
upkeep. They paid an initial N150, 000 for the three children for
the first term.”
But according to the proprietor, Adepegba never kept his promise.
He said after the first term, the school expected him to come and
take his children home for holiday but he never showed up until
four years later. He said the school had expended over N7m on the
upkeep of the children since 2007.
The proprietor said efforts to reach the parents’ families had
proved abortive, adding that calls to Adepegba’s phones were not
always answered.
(Source: punch.ng)
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