A Lagos school teacher, simply identified as Mr. Ighalo, has allegedly inflicted multiple lacerations on the back of a 13-year-old pupil, Moses Matthew, after giving him several strokes of the cane for allegedly disturbing his
class.
Matthew’s Offence? The teenager cried out when another student stepped on a wound on his leg.
An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity for fear of being victimised, told our correspondent that Mr. Ighalo, who is a Mathematics teacher at Cardoso High School, Badia, Lagos, descended upon the student for shouting from the pain he suffered due to the action of his colleague, and disturbing his
class.
Mr. Ighalo beat and lacerated my back. I was about to submit my examination paper, when a boy stepped on my wound, and I kicked him on his buttocks. Then, Mr. Ighalo, saw me and started flogging me on my back
According to the eyewitness, the teacher, who was angered by the noise made by Matthew over what his fellow student did to him, mercilessly flogged him, giving him several strokes of the cane and leaving him with his back lacerated by the intense whipping he received from his Mathematics teacher.
He said, “A boy of about 13 years, Moses Mathew, was flogged by his teacher for reacting when another student stepped on his
wound.
“His teacher, out of anger, descended on him, locked him up and flogged him without mercy.”
Giving his own account of what transpired between him and his teacher, Mr. Ighalo, the teenage student said, “Mr. Ighalo beat me several times on my back. I was
about to submit my examination paper, when a boy stepped on my wound, and I kicked him on his buttocks. Then, Mr. Ighalo, saw me and started flogging me on my back.”
Apparently taken aback by the injuries inflicted on their son, Matthew’s parents stormed the school the next day and confronted Ighalo, demanding why he should treat the teenager with such cruelty.
But having realised his highhandedness in dealing with Matthew, Ighalo later took the teenager to a nearby clinic to get medical attention for the injuries he inflicted on his back.
“He later took me to a clinic, when my parents came to our school,” Matthew said.
