We don’t plan to exhume Whitney Adeniran’s corpse, Chrisland replies Lagos

The management of Chrisland School says it doesn’t plan to exhume the body of Whitney Adeniran.

Chrisland Group runs a number of top-rated schools spread across Lagos and Abuja, with branches in Ikeja (Opebi & Ladipo Oluwole), Victoria Garden City, Lekki, Festac Area (Amuwo-Odofin), and Idimu.

Whitney Adeniran, a pupil of Chrisland High School in Ikeja, died on February 9 during a sports event in Agege Stadium.

Blessing Adeniran, Whitney’s mother, accused Chrisland of negligence at the competition that led to her death.

Consequently, the state ministry of education ordered a temporary closure of the school pending an investigation.

The state later revealed that an autopsy conducted on February 15 showed that the girl died from asphyxia and electrocution.

State officials subsequently raised an alarm that they learned of a plan to exhume the body of the girl. Lagos argued that conditions that would warrant this under the coroner system law don’t apply in Whitney’s case.

Reacting to the concerns, the Chrisland management says it has no such plan to exhume Whitney.

The school, in a statement shared with TheCable, said efforts are instead underway to immortalise Whitney.

“We vehemently refute the claim making the rounds that Chrisland intends to exhume Whitney’s body,” the school said.

“We have no such plan and assure the public that we are also parents in mourning and will not do or subscribe to anything that paints such insensitive optics that prevents our dear daughter from resting.

“We assure you all that no such thing will happen. Plans are underway to immortalize Whitney’s name so she can remain indelible in our consciousness.”

The school, while reacting to the outcome of the autopsy, expressed its remorse about Whitney’s death.

“The management of Chrisland School is aware of the developments around the autopsy report,” the statement reads.

“We are deeply saddened and sorry about Whitney’s death. We are remorseful and sorry to Whitney’s parents.

“We are sorry to our parents and the entire community that hosts our school. We are also very sorry to the nation at large. It was a huge loss to the School.

“We express an equal measure of apology to the Nigeria Media, another critical stakeholder, in case we have sent unbearably quiet signals.”

This is not the first time Chrisland School would be caught in the middle of a crisis involving one of its students.

In mid-2022, four teachers were arraigned after a sex tape by Chrisland pupils surfaced online.

In 2019, an ex-staffer of the Chrisland in VGC bagged a 60-year jail term for defiling a two-year-old girl in 2016.