Ten students of Ogun school arrested for ‘beating up teacher’

The Ogun state police have arrested ten students of Isanbi Comprehensive High School, Ilisan-Remo for allegedly beating up one of their teachers.

Premium Times reports that the alleged victim, identified as Kolawole Shonuga, had prevented one of the students from cheating during an examination for the senior secondary students of the school’s SS1 art class.

Shonuga was said to have caught the erring student and seized his papers.

After school hours, the said student and some of his friends allegedly waylaid their teacher at the school gate, physically attacking him.

Omotola Odutola, the police spokesperson in Ogun, said Shonuga reported the incident at Remo Police Division.

Odutola confirmed the arrest of 10 suspects but did not disclose whether or not the students have been arraigned in court.

Reacting to the controversy, Felix Agbesanwa, the state chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS), was quoted as condemning the behaviour of the students.

Agbesanwa said students found assaulting their teachers “must be made to face the law”.

“The incident is true, and I have been briefed. Our stand is that any student who raises his hand against his teacher should face the wrath of the law,” the ASUSS chair said.

“There’s no going back on that. No student must raise his hand against the teacher, whether Ogun Teach teachers or permanent teachers, a teacher is a teacher.

“They must be made to face the law to serve as a deterrent. I learnt they have been charged to court already.”