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Saturday, May 19, 2018

Ogun state police, on Wednesday, said the proprietor, the principal, and a teacher at Meteorite Standard School in Ayetoro, Nigeria were arrested for allegedly tying two students — one male and one female — to crucifixes and lashing them with a horsewhip for being late to school. They have been charged with assault as well as intentions to cause bodily harms.

According to police officer Livinus, who was one of the witnesses, he asked the proprietor of the private school, identified as Afolayan Joseph, to untie the students. The proprietors “refused, saying there was nothing anybody could tell him that would make him to release them” — Livinus told a local newspaper The Punch. Livinus added that he was beaten when the tried to untie the students. “Before I returned from picking handcuffs from my car, they had grabbed a friend who was with me […] and beaten him up with a horsewhip”, the police official said.

Livinus said he entered the school with the help of neighbours, and later called Itele Police Station’s divisional police officer. Calling the act as “barbaric”, Ogun Police Public Relations Officer Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the arrest of three. Oyeyemi said the investigation is to be conducted by State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department.

The public relations officer said, “I don’t see any offence that a secondary school pupil will commit that will make someone to tie him or her and be flogging them in public.” “The act is no longer a corrective measure; it is a barbaric act and it will not be allowed in this 21st century”, Oyeyemi added. Nigeria is not among the 60 countries to ban communal punishment.

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