Sylvester Oromoni: Singer Simi kicks against boarding schools, lists reasons

Tobi Adebayo
Nigerian singer, Simi has urged parents to pay attention to their kids whenever they notice changes in their behavioural patterns.

Simi said this in reaction to the death of a 12-year-old Dowen College student, Sylvester Oromoni, who died as a result of an attack on him by his senior colleagues.

The “Duduke” crooner, on her Instagram stories, regretted that Sylvester had to die for the evils in boarding schools to be exposed.

Simi wrote: “Y’all please don’t leave your babies in these hellish schools after you notice something is off because you think it will get better or because they apologised.

“Even daycare, primary schools. Many of them are traumatizing children, but many parents don’t even pay attention. ‘They beat me too. I did not die.’

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“Also, I have never been an advocate for boarding school. That age is so sensitive. They need you. Most kids that want to go often do so for sus reasons lol and many parents do it cos they want free time. They need you. Even when they say they don’t or they are mad at you, they need you.

“They need you to be present, to be in their faces and knowing everything about them. They need to be able to come to you for everything- not just to see them 3-4 months in a year, but each to his/her own I guess.

“This world is not a kind place. We have to stand in the gap for our children every day. God help us. It’s painful that a child had to lose his life for these conversations to be happening,” she wrote.