Metro Ogun State: Parents Abandon Children in Boarding School for 8 Years

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In a boarding school in Abule-Iroko in the Ado-Odo Ota Local government area of Ogun state, three children are crying for their parents who abandoned them for eight years.

A visit by the PUNCH newspaper to Solid Model college revealed that these children have not seen their parents for the past eight years. Seun Adepegba is 14, Seyi is 10 and Titilola, 13, and their troubles began in 2007 when their father, Mr. Segun Adepegba, who had been separated from their mother.

He enrolled them in the boarding school because he wasn't equipped to take care of them. The school proprietor, Mr. Samuel Ayegbusi, said Mr. Adepegba enrolled them in his school and promised to check on his children.

“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.”

However, Adepegba didn't keep that promise. It took four years for Adepegba to come take his children for holiday and right now, the proprietor says the school has spent over N7m taking care of Adepegba's children since 2007.

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Source: #PUNCH

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