A widow identified as Mrs Opeyemi Adegboyega, has dragged the Ondo State Government before the state High Court over the alleged disappearance of her child, Oluwaseun Omoniyi, while in custody of the Ondo State Juvenile Home, Akure. Also included in the suit are the state Commissioner for Women Affairs and the state's Attorney-General. The widow claimed that her son was admitted into the home in 2017 while she had been receiving treatment at the hospital. Mrs Adegboyega also stated that after she lost her husband, the home had offered to take in her four children during her illness but she had only agreed to release the the then three month old Oluwaseun Omoniyi.
Narrating her reason for suing the government, The defendant stated that when she recovered at the hospital a month later, she approached the home to take her baby back but was told the baby had died and remains deposited at the morgue of the state Specialist Hospital in Akure.The distraught mother also explained that when she visited that Specialist Hospital's morgue, the management told her it did not receive any corpse of a baby from the juvenile home at the period claimed by the home. Mrs Adegboyega further revealed that all efforts to reach the governor of Ondo state, Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, as well as other public officers named in her suit, proved abortive.
Mrs Opeyemi Adegboyega through her lawyer, also sought an order of the court to direct the defendants to pay her N50m as “exemplary and aggravated damages,” N40m as general damages for the excruciating pain, anguish, personal loss, and psychological trauma caused by the negligent act of the defendants, as well as N5m damages as “cost of this action.” The Claimant also sought a court order that 15per cent interest per annum be paid on the judgment sum from the date of the judgment until the judgment sum is finally liquidated.
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