Olaide Agboluaje, mother of Fadlullah Agboluaje who died in Ukraine, has accused Lviv Polytechnic National University of negligence.
An autopsy done on Agboluaje’s body showed the Nigerian student died in his school hostel in Ukraine due to extreme cold, the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) said on Monday.
Agboluaje, 19, arrived in Ukraine on January 8 and was reported dead one day after.
NIDCOM chairman Abike Dabiri-Erewa paid a condolence visit to his family.
Mrs Agboluaje said it was not the first time her son was travelling overseas and that he was not ill before he travelled. She blamed her son’s death on the negligence of the school’s liaison officer.
She told BBC Pidgin that the school never reached out to the bereaved family to condone with them.
“I haven’t heard from the school. They don’t even care. They were supposed to condole with the family but they did not reach out to us,” she said.
Mrs Agboluaje pleaded that she should be allowed to enter the country to pay her last respect if they will not send her son’s body to Nigeria.
Agboluaje’s sister Rofeeha had said on social media that her brother did not like his accommodation after he was picked from the airport by a representative of the school to its accommodation facility.
“After he got to his room, he was not happy with the look of the place so my mum told him to request for change of room,” she said.
Rofeeha said her brother went to the front desk of the facility to report to the person on duty. She added that her brother reached out to the liaison officer assigned to him when he realised the official on duty at the front desk did not understand English.
“This man told my brother to see him in the morning the following day by 7am,” she said.
Rofeeha revealed her mother spoke with Agboluaje till 11 pm on Sunday and by Monday they did not hear from him again.
Efforts to speak with the liaison officer afterwards fell through.
