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Electrocuted Edo Pupil To Be Buried Saturday

Family Withdraws Case From Police, Set For Burial

The burial of a teenager, Benedict Sani who was electrocuted to death in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo State has been scheduled to hold this Saturday amidst tears and agony.

A government delegation, led by the Commissioner for Education, Mr Emmanuel Agbale, have also visited the grieving parents, describing the death of the boy as a huge loss.

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Governor Godwin Obaseki, represented by his Chief of Staff, Mr Taiwo Akerele, had earlier paid a condolence visit to the Sanis.

The family members have also decided to withdraw their case from the police to enable them bury him, even as the Benin Electricity Distribution Company has promised them compensation.

The 13-year-old boy had died after suffering a fatal electric shock when he touched a faulty pole which belongs to the BEDC along Benin-Auchi expressway.

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The pole, bearing high-tension cables around Eyaen Primary School, was damaged when a vehicle rammed into it on July 9.

The boy, who was the only son of his parents and had dreamed of becoming a Catholic priest, was said to have touched a metal rod that had been exposed due to the damage and was burnt beyond recognition.

This led to a protest by pupils and resident who blamed the BEDC for failing to fix the pole to prevent any disaster.

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Naija News gathered that the management of the Disco visited the bereaved family on Tuesday and plan to take care of the expense for the burial.

An uncle to the father of the deceased, Chief Samuel Tamara, who spoke to our correspondent, said that the BEDC management was accompanied by officials from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission.

Tamara said, “We received a delegation from the BEDC, led by its executive director. Representatives of the NERC were also around. They showed their sympathy over what happened and that they had set up a high-powered investigative committee to investigate the remote cause of the problem and to know how to avert future occurrence.

“They said that they were ready to take care of the burial expenses as well as trying to see how they can pacify the family in a way of compensation. But we decided that we are ready to bury the boy (deceased) first.

“We are proposing Saturday. Right now, we want to go the police station so that we can close the case and so that they (police) can release the corpse to us.”

He also stated that the Catholic parish where the deceased served as an altar boy would be carried along in burial plans.

Immediately we finish from the (police) station, we are going to the church, so that we can inform the church. Our proposal (for the burial) is Saturday.

“If is convenient for the church, it is fine. If it is not, we will know the appropriate date. But, as a family, we are proposing Saturday,” Tamara added.