By Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting
A two-year-old pupil of a private nursery and primary school at Mazamaza in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State has been allegedly brutalized with 24 strokes of the cane.
The two-year-old girl was said to have been flogged and wounded by her teacher for allegedly being unable to recite the English alphabet in class.
The child abuse news was broken by one Waka Waka Tailor on his Twitter handle @wakawakatailor, on Friday, describing the flogged girl as his niece.
He also posted the name of the school with the address and two phone numbers as well as two photographs of the small girl with one of them showing various wounds the cane had inflicted on her back and the other in mufti.
According to him, when the mother of the girl, who is his own sister, confronted the teacher, a female, she boasted that it wasn’t only the girl that was flogged as several others were also given 24 strokes each over the same offence and that she would flog them the more.
He also said his sister told him that one of her other children came back from school (which is unnamed) another day bleeding from the nose also for allegedly flogging her on the head.
He said when his sister confronted the school over the former incident, the school denied having knowledge of the accusation.
“But this one,” he said, “the school wouldn’t be able to deny it as there are marks of the flogging on the girl’s back.
Reacting, some parents condemned the act, saying both the teacher and the school owner must be sanctioned for dehumanising the innocent girl.
Similarly, one of the Twitter users, Blessed Beyond Measure, said in his response that “2-year-old that should just be enjoying their lives? This is what happens when there is no government to regulate things. Many private schools shouldn’t be open in the first place and many people have no business being called teachers. That nonsense school should be closed.”
Another one, Abdullah, @oshokeab, said “Some people just wake up and decide to become school proprietors without having the necessary experience and recruit all manners of people that are so quick to transfer their family or personal issues on their students, as teachers.”
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