Court orders Ondo govt to pay N25m over missing infant in juvenile home

An Ondo State High Court sitting successful Akure has ordered the authorities authorities and the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development to wage N25 cardinal successful damages to a pistillate whose babe lad disappeared portion successful the custody of a government-run juvenile home.

In a judgement delivered by Justice Oluyemi Akintan Osadebay, the tribunal held the authorities authorities liable for the disappearance of Mrs Opeyemi Adegboyega’s three-month-old son, Omoniyi Oluwaseun, who was placed successful the attraction of the Ondo State Juvenile Home successful 2017.

The kid was reportedly handed implicit to the Ministry of Women Affairs portion his parent received attraction for slump and schizophrenia astatine the authorities Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital.

According to tribunal records, Adegboyega was informed aft her discharge from the infirmary that her lad had died and that his remains had been deposited successful a mortuary. However, upon making inquiries astatine the State Specialist Hospital, she was allegedly told that nary corpse matching the child’s statement had been received from ministry officials.

Dissatisfied with the mentation surrounding her son’s whereabouts, the claimant, done her counsel, Mr Oju Kekemeke, institu...