Nigerian students tied to crucifixes and beaten for coming late to school
Definitely not ‘traditional school discipline’ – a report of absolute madness from CNN in 2018.
A Nigerian boy was tied to a cross for coming late
to a private school in Ayetoro, Ogun State, south-west Nigeria on 16 April 2018
Lagos, Nigeria
(CNN) Three people including a
school principal have been arrested in Nigeria for allegedly tying two students
to makeshift crucifixes and flogging them for coming late to school, a police
spokesman told CNN.
The pupils were being
flogged by a teacher in front of their school Wednesday morning in the remote
town of Ayetoro, Ogun State, northwest of Lagos.
“They were tied to a wooden
trees made to look like a crucifix when a policeman on patrol saw them. They
told the principal and the school proprietor to untie them and they refused.
They even beat one of the people who intervened,” Abimbola Oyeyemi, Ogun State
police spokesman told CNN.
The state’s police command
said it was investigating the case and said the school’s principal, owner, and
a teacher have been charged with assault and intention to cause grievous bodily
harm.
CNN could not immediately
reach the school authorities for comments.
As published on the CNN website 18 May 2018
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