HOW 13-YR-OLD OCHANYA DIED WHILE SEEKING AN EDUCATION

Returning from the farm on a hot, sunny afternoon in May 2018, Rose Abah-Ogbanje received a call from the Federal Government Girls' College that her daughter, Ochanya, was sick and in need of medical attention.

Although it was not the first time the Ogbanje family would receive such call, this was different.

Ochanya Elizabeth Ogbanje, a 13-year-old junior student of the FGGC Gboko, Benue State,  spent days in the sickbay without any improvement health wise.

Tired and worried, Mrs Ogbanje dropped her  farm implements outside the two-room apartment, informed her husband, Michael, and they made arrangements to get their daughter from the school.

Ochanya returned home weak, paralysed and could only mumble a few words.

From a tender age, all Ochanya longed for was to go to school; a basic right of a child according to Article 28 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Nigeria is a signatory to this convention.

"Ochanya was a very brave child who wanted good education," Ochanya's father, a retired military personnel tells Pulse while sitting behind the grave of the 13-year-old in Ogene-Amejo village in Okpokwu local government area of Benue state.

However, there was a problem.

The only primary school in the community, a stone-throw from Ochanya's family house, was shutdown in 2011 due to non-payment of teachers' salaries, multiple sources say.

Rusty roofing sheets, cracked and broken down walls are all that remains of the Local Government Education Authority (L.G.E.A) Primary School, Ogene-Amejo, which was established in 1976.

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