Before January 29, 2015, the girl’s eyes could
be said to be perfect, going by the picture she
took with her friends the same month when the
school celebrated its 50th anniversary. But the
tide changed against Iyanu and it seems she has
lost an eye.
Sunday Tribune gathered that the event that led
to the change in Iyanu’s life started when she
was allegedly slapped by one Mrs Funke
Fashina, said to be the secretary to the principal
of the school. And what was her offence? The
woman reportedly saw her and two other girls
emerging from an unused room within the
school building and enquired to know what
they were doing there. Before they could reply,
she landed a slap on Iyanu’s face first, and
subsequently others.
The girl’s right eye was said to have developed
a problem and had got worse, with the
University College Hospital, Ibadan (UCH),
saying that she would require a surgery. Iyanu
told Sunday Tribune that she could no longer
see with the right eye.
Narrating her experience to Sunday Tribune,
Iyanu said:
“On Thursday, January 29, students were
having an Agriculture class, so those of us
offering Food and Nutrition left the class
and three of us went to stay in one of the
rooms in the building.
“We saw our teacher from the window of
the room so we wanted to step out to go
and meet her. As we were about to leave
the room, we saw the secretary to the
Principal, Mrs Funke Fasina. She asked us
what we were doing in that room but
before we could explain, she slapped us
one after the other.
“By the time I got home, my left eye had
turned red and painful. I told my mother
what happened but she dismissed me,
saying that I would not have been slapped
if I didn’t do something wrong. On
Monday February 9, my mother followed
me to school and the principal asked my
mother to take me to the hospital.
“We went to Catholic Hospital, Eleta,
Ibadan and we were told to do the scan of
the eye. By then, my eye had become bulgy
and I was no longer seeing clearly. We
went to St. Gregory’s Ultrasound Centre,
Yemetu. From there, we went to the
University College Hospital, Ibadan and I
was told that I would undergo surgery. We
were told to bring N300,000 as deposit. My
parents have reported the case at the police
station in Alakia Adelubi and the woman
admitted that she slapped me.”
Iyanuoluwa said before the slap, she never had
any pain or itch in her eye, so the report that
she had a problem with her eye does not hold
water. “Now I can no longer see with my right
eye and I am going through a lot of pains,” she
stated.
Iyanu’s mother, Mrs Damilola Dahunsi,
corroborated her daughter’s narration, saying
that she didn’t take the incident serious
initially.
“To my surprise, the eye started swelling
up. I followed my daughter to school on
Monday, February 9 and the principal was
shocked to see the eye.
“We went to Mrs Fashina and I begged her
to give us an antidote if she used a charm
on my daughter but she denied using
charm to slap my daughter. My daughter
never had any eye problem since she was
born.
“We took Iyanuoluwa to UCH and we were
told that she would go through surgery. We
did CT scan at UCH but the result was
cornered and we never saw it. We were
told to go home when we could not pay the
N300,000 we were asked to deposit.
“Unfortunately, the woman who slapped my
daughter refused to do anything financially and
my brother who went to the Commissioner for
Education was told that efforts were on to go
round schools for students to contribute money
towards my daughter’s treatment.”
Sunkanmi Ojewumi, Iyanu’s uncle, decried the
attitude of a staff of UCH (names withheld),
whom he said tried to frustrate all their efforts
because she is Mrs Fashina’s in-law.
“We didn’t get the result of the test carried
out in UCH and the police at Alakia-
Adelubi did not get it also. To our surprise,
the result found its way to TESCOM where
the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of
Education, Mr. Giwa, told me he had seen
the result and it indicated that the girl
might have had underlying problems that
resulted in the eye problem.
“He said the only way they could help was
to go round schools and seek donations
from students, which TESCOM would add
to. It was claimed that she had a tumor in
the eye. But we will not accept the result
because the girl never had eye problem.
“We appeal to the government to come to
the girl’s aid. We don’t have any money
and the father’s shop at Oki area of Ibadan
was razed recently and he lost goods worth
millions of naira. The mother sells
provisions.”
Sunday Tribune gathered that the case was
eventually transferred to the Department of
Criminal Investigation, Iyaganku and was
arraigned to court on Monday, March 9 for
wounding. This was confirmed by the police’s
spokesperson in Oyo State, DSP Adekunle
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