“I knew she would be a great child. That was why I gave her the name Success,” father of the little Success whose video went viral after being sent home over non-payment of examination fee in Delta State, narrated.
Success, the seven-year-old Sapele girl, was sent away from Okotie-Eboh Primary School 1, Sapele local government area of Delta state over non-payment of N900 examination levy by her head teacher, Mrs. Vero Igbigwe.
Punch reported that Godwin Adegor, Success father, is a commercial motorcyclist popularly known as okada rider, while her mum sells recharge cards and raw eggs. They also have two other children – Gift and Marvelous – who are in Junior Secondary School.
Parents of Success have narrated how they almost aborted Success whose video has now changed their lives.
The girl’s father said his wife once contemplated aborting her when she became pregnant, and even took a poisonous substance to get rid of her.
Adegor recalled “We received many favours on the day she was given birth to. Let me tell you a short story about Success. After our second child, my wife said she didn’t want to give birth to another child.
“When she was pregnant with Success, she decided to drink ‘Angle 90’ (a poisonous substance). She said she wanted to die. I convinced her that rather than kill yourself, have the baby so that you could sell it for N500,000. But she said she wouldn’t sell her baby.
“On the day Success was born, somebody that had owed me N100,000 paid the debt. Money was just coming from different areas. As we were receiving the goodwill, I told my wife that if we had terminated the pregnancy, would these favours have come to us? It was because of the goodwill that has always followed her that made me named name Success.”
“She has been receiving blessings from every corner since she was born. There was a day a soldier who stopped the vehicle that was taking them (our children) to see their grandmother at Kwale, gave her the bread he had bought for his family. The soldier said he liked the way my daughter was talking. Anywhere she goes, she always receives favour. She has won a scholarship before. The scholarship was given to her by a governor’s aide,” he said.
However, Success who preferred to be caned rather than being sent home has been offered free international passport to visit Great Britain and United States of America.
Mrs Igbigwe her school’s head teacher was suspended on Monday by Barr. Chiedu Ebie, the Delata state Commissioner for Education, over what the commissioner called “the alleged illegal collection of examination levies from the school pupils.”
Ebie said: “In my brief encounter with the Head Teacher this morning, there appeared to be numerous inconsistencies in her response on this issue as she was unable to categorically state who authorised her to impose the levies or fees which is in clear breach of the extant rules.
“Consequently, I have directed the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) to suspend the Head Teacher pending the outcome of a formal enquiry into the issue of unauthorised levies/ and fees imposed by her in the School.”
