Accused students led out of court
Earlier, a female teacher in Imo state was attacked with machetes, now, reports of a teacher in Osun beaten black and blue by his students has hit the blogosphere.According to Vanguard, for more than 15 years that Osho Bamidele Samuel has been teaching,
Friday, October 24, 2014, will forever remain unforgettable, as he
escaped death by whiskers, in the hands of some of his students who beat him black and blue because he scolded them for indiscipline.
Trouble
started that fateful day, when Samuel, who teaches English Language and
Literature-in-English to the SSS2 and 3 students of St. Marks Anglican
Grammar School, Kolabalogun area, Osogbo, Osun State, when he scolded a
group of students, numbering five, who were not in their classrooms while lectures were ongoing.
Narrating his ordeal, Samuel said:
“It was around 1p.m on Friday, October 24, 2014, that I was assigned by school authorities
to distribute learning furniture to other schools. On going back to my
office in Block 5, after I finished, I discovered that lectures were
ongoing, in all the four classrooms, except the one close to my office.
“On entering the classroom, I met a group of students there. I asked them what they were doing but they didn’t answer me. I said are you in my school? If you are in my school, go to the class. If you are not in my school, go to your school. I don’t want to see any student disturbing when lecture is going on in the class.
“At this point, one of them came close to me and steering at me in the eyes.
I said to him, are you mad? I asked you to go to your classroom and you
are coming to me. He came closer and wanted to chest me. I said,
definitely you must be a tout.
“When I got angry and held on to his
trousers in order to take him out for punishment, his friends pounced on
me and started twisting my hands. They pushed me to the wall, dragged
me on the floor.
Unfortunate incident
“However, it was when some students who saw the unfortunate incident,
ran to call other teachers, we apprehended two of them, while the others
ran away and began to throw stones at us.”
Speaking further, the teacher
said: “It has been hell for teachers in Osun State, since schools were
merged and students began using the same uniform. Before the
reclassification programme, the situation was under control, but now, if
we call a student to do something, he or she will just walk away saying
I am not in your school,”
As at the time of filing this report, the teacher was still unable to move his hands, as he was said to be receiving medical attention.
Meanwhile, while three of the students who allegedly dealt with their teacher
have been charged to court, others were charged to juvenile court, as
they were not yet 18 years, thus their exclusion from the charge sheet.