About nine junior secondary school students were on Tuesday, caught
donating blood illegally to one Mr. Sola in Agege area of Lagos.
It
was learnt that members of the community noticed the unusual visit of
some students to a certain shop located on Owoloabi Omotoye street,
Orile Agege, during and after school hours which prompted a little
investigation.
The investigations revealed that the students had been donating their blood for money.
One
of the students nabbed at the shop and simply identified as Emeka, a
JSS2 pupil, confessed to donating his blood thrice for the sum of N1,
500 on each occasion with Sola asking them “not to tell anyone about
it.”
Some
of the students, who were from Oke Odo High School; State Senior High
School,Oyewole; State Junior High School, Oyewole; State High School,
Mulero; Keke High school, Agege, it was further gathered, had donated
their blood up to 17 times .
Confirming the incident, chairman of
the Parent-Teachers’ Association (PTA) State Junior High School, Mr.
Adeyemi, said some of the students, who became very sick as a result of
the repeated blood donation, had been taken to the hospital while the
rest had been released to their parents.
Mr. Adeyemi added that
beside those caught in the act, several other students later confessed
to have donated their blood at one point or the other saying that the
case had been reported to the education district 1 for further action.
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