 The Lagos State Government has cleared five students and five employees of Derwent College, accused of complicity in the death of 12-year-old Sylvester O'Romany. The school was also cleared following the legal advice of the Director of Public Prosecution Adetutu Oshinusi. In the advice, the interim and final autopsy reports issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and Toxicology Report of post-mortem samples and that of the Central Hospital Worry were in agreement as to the cause of death. The result of the toxicology is also not indicative of any toxic or poison substance in the body of the deceased. The DPP's legal advice therefore concluded that, based on these findings, there is no prima facie case of murder, involuntary manslaughter, and or malicious administering of poison with intent to harm against the five students. Meanwhile, a senior advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falano, has reacted to the report issued by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions of Lagos State. Falano argued that the report had not laid the allegation surrounding the gruesome murder of Sylvester O'Romany to rest. He said the report is escapist and hasty because the authorities are aware of the fact that the Chief Coroner of Lagos State has ordered that an inquest be conducted into the circumstances surrounding the unnatural death of O'Romany. The inquest which commenced before the coroner on December 16, 2021 has been adjourned to January 15, 2022 for further hearing. Joining us live is Abisola Richard Obamo, Child Book Author on Health and Safety. Good evening. Good evening. Okay, Mr. Obamo, are you with me? Mr. Obamo? Yes, I can hear you. All right, good evening to you. Good evening. The Lagos State government. How are you doing today? I'm good, I'm fine, thank you. How are you? Very well, thank you. All right. Well, this case is one that every Nigerian, I believe, is quite interested in. The Lagos State government has cleared school and the five Darwin students and staff from death of Sylvester O'Romany. What do you make of this latest report? Well, as a mother, as a citizen of this great nation, it's pretty disheartening to find that the outcome of such a very gruesome case would just be rather hasty or attended to with such a panterm position, because going by what I know by a certain antecedent that would avert in the Nigerian legal system, sometimes cases that are even more on a stable level, are addressed with more detail and more attention to bring justice as opposed to in this case. So I'm not saying that the state didn't have any grounds to address or to release the parties, but I'm saying that I think more detail should have been should have been undergone to address this case. I believe just as a layman, not as a legal practitioner, that there's no smoke without fire. The child who was stated to have been bullied, and the people who were based on the great vinyl, based on word-of-mouth weakness have said, yes, the child claims he was bullied. And such an occurrence, a tragic occurrence took place afterwards. I think that legal states could perhaps make it do a more extensive search, do a more... You are saying that there are causes for worry, you're saying that there's cause for worry over this? Yes, yes, I think so. Especially knowing too well that the corona inquest has not concluded its sit-in. Yes, precisely. Because you know, the parties involved, the corona inquest could have been released to the state from the little I know about the law. And I know that the law being the state, being the chief prosecutor might have such information. I mean, no, I've released it, you know, they probably chose to release as they didn't fit. I was saying that, you know, from the angle of empathy, from the angle of the fact that we don't really want to build antecedents on the fact that people can do such things and get away with it. I think more extensive work should be done on this, because there really is cause for worry. Well, because you're annoyed, okay, well, let's just... I was going to ask you a different question, but you're not a doctor, so let's leave it at that. However, what do you think will be going through the mind of Sylvester's parents at this point? Oh, well, I can imagine that they... I know that, you know, I believe that they are fighters, but I can imagine that they might feel helpless, they might feel like forsaken by, you know, by the Nigerian judiciary, they would feel, you know, like the nation has dealt them a bad blow, they would feel terrible, as in beyond words, even I, for one, as an onlooker and as a parent, who understands that, you know, it takes a lot to groom a child. Your child is... Every child is a child of promise. Every child is a destiny that needs to be nurtured and allowed to bloom. So I, for one, as an onlooker and as a parent, I feel, you know, despair, I feel sad, I feel, you know, that there must be more that can be done. This cannot just end like that. All right, thank you so much, Bistala Richard Obamu for your time and insight, please. The inquest which commenced before the current on December 16th, you know, 2021 has been adjourned to January 15th, 2022 for further hearing, so fingers crossed, I guess. Thank you so much.