Electrocuted 14-year-old girl passes WASSCE with flying colours

Deborah Faleke, a 14-year-old girl electrocuted by a fallen high-tension wire at Fagbenro Street, Alakuko, Lagos state in May, had two distinctions and six credits in the just released West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), the recently-released results show.

Ademola Faleke, a pastor and father of the deceased, told NAN on Tuesday that Deborah’s result was one of the best in her school.

“The late Deborah had two distinctions and six credits out of the nine subjects she sat for in the 2016 May/June Examination.

“She had C6 in Economics, B3 in Geography, C5 in Civil Education, and C4 in English Language. She also had C4 in Mathematics, B3v in Chemistry, E8 in Biology, C6 in Physics and F9 in Marketing respectively.”

The pastor, moved to tears while reeling out the result to NAN, said that Deborah had desired to study Bio-chemistry in one of the private universities in Ogun, before her untimely death.

“I had promised to finance her education to her desired level then, Faleke said.

“Now that she is no more, the result had become a wasted effort and her hopes of studying the course of her choice dashed.”

The late Deborah was the Senior Girl in her secondary school in her final year; she was also president of the school’s Jet Club and secretary of its literary and debating society.

“As a father, I had promised her then that I would try within my power to ensure that she achieves her educational desires but the will of God must prevail,” he said.

NAN had previously reported that Deborah had gone to stay with her cousin Bukola Ogunbanjo barely two weeks after she had finished writing her WASCE examination when the unfortunate incident happened.

The high-tension, which belonged to Ikeja Electric (IE), fell on Deborah immediately electricity supply was restored to the area around 10am.

Faleke also said that the management of IE, which was in charge of the area, visited his family once since the incident occurred.

“The management of IE visited my family once,” he said. “Since then, my family has not seen or heard anything from the IE management.”

He also said that recently the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) sent its representatives to commiserate with him and his family over the loss.

However, Felix Ofulue, head of corporate communications at IE, said the matter was being handled by its legal unit.

He said that he would communicate whatever updates he had to NAN, as soon as it is made available to him.