Akwa Ibom school defends teacher who flogged student mercilessly, leaving her bruised because her ‘school uniform was short and goes against the Bible’ – –

The administration of a personal secondary college in Akwa Ibom State has responded to an allegation of kid abuse made in opposition to one in every of its employees.

A Fb person, Celestine Mel took to the platform to share images of the scholar recognized merely as Udeme, alleging that she was overwhelmed ruthlessly by a employees of the college, King Solomon Secondary College in Uyo.

Mel revealed that the SS3 pupil is his relation’s daughter and alleged that she obtained overwhelmed as a result of her “college uniform was too brief and goes in opposition to the Bible“.

He wrote,

When a relation of mine forwarded disturbing pictures, concerning the bestial brutality visited on her daughter, who’s an SS3 pupil of King Solomon Secondary College, a privately owned co-educational establishment in Uyo – Akwa Ibom by Mrs. Ndifreke Etim Asuquo, the daughter of the proprietress, who additionally doubles as the college’s admissions officer to me in the present day, I used to be initially hesitant to imagine my eyes. The gravity and beastliness of the sight scared daylight out of me. It was a Monday morning, and I used to be busy at work. I wanted to concentrate on my to-do listing and the various Monday conferences. So, I let or not it’s.

Attempt as I might, my thoughts didn’t depart from these scorching photos. I saved prancing between Microsoft Tasks Workplace Go well with, (which is my major work instrument), and the WhatsApp webpage which I used to archive the ghoulish photos. Every go to to WhatsApp haunted me like a nasty dream. I began hating myself and my surroundings. I used to be feeling tormented, raped and brutalized. I scoffed on the lack of empathy and charm, that might have provoke such violence by whomsoever, on my buddy – Udeme. A few of unpleasant movies are too graphic to share. Whodunnit?

Upon returning house this evening, I demanded for and obtained the telephone variety of the beastly child-abuser. A lady for actual? I used to be crammed with extra rage; too bitter to ring her up, to ask why she defiled this little angel so cruelly. Because the adrenaline rushed down my veins, I summoned the braveness to dial her. I wanted to listen to her facet of the story. To be honest to her. And my conscience. I wanted to persuade myself that it was a dream.

On the second ring, she answered. The next dialogue ensured:

“Hiya, my title is Celestine Mel, calling from the FCT. I’m I chatting with Madam Ndifreke of King Solomon College – Ewet Housing Property Uyo?” I requested.

“Sure, that is Ndifreke”. She answered.

“Expensive madam Ndi, I obtained this disturbing info concerning an incident in your college in the present day, tenth January 2022, whereby you’ve been accused of beating your pupil – Udeme and inflicting critical bodily damage to her. I wish to hear your individual facet of the story. What occurred?” I requested.

“I can’t communicate on the matter. I’ll sue you for intruding into my privateness. I’m a mom, a wife and a girl. I didn’t act alone. I acted on behalf of the college. The varsity would reply formally. Bla..bla..bla.” Ndifreke answered. Then the telephone went clean. I continued to listen to crackling noises on the different finish…. Then I hanged up.

From her tone, it was very straightforward to infer that I simply spoke to a wickedly merciless monstrous and unapologetically cruel baby bully. I couldn’t think about myself caught up on this type of story, akin to the latest shenanigans in Dowen School Lagos. Or the Deeper Life Excessive College Uyo. I wanted to get to the foundation of this. I referred to as up my relations and requested them if they might want to inform this story to the world. They consented and sat down with me to reveal all of it…

Ndifreke accosted Udeme this morning at college, accusing her of violating the college’s costume code. The cost was that her college uniform was too brief, and goes in opposition to the Bible, which (in keeping with Ndifreke) kinds the ethical pillar of the college. She wished to strip the kid down. She does it to different college students. The kid tried to run away. Ndifreke descended on her, utilizing each weapon inside her attain: cane, stick, planks, and so on. From the top to her again, shoulder, thighs, legs, and so on. There have been bumps, blood and bruises. She seemed like a fortunate survivor, out from a bombed-out rubble in a conflict zone. The top bulged out. The eyes blood-shot. He pores and skin peeled right here and there, lacerated and bleeding. She left the college by foot and in pains, and walked house by foot, a number of kilometers away. Alone. With no mercy. Or cash. Or pity.

The mom who dropped her off only some minutes earlier, couldn’t perceive the flip of occasions. She actually ran mad. My baby? Who? How? Why? Questions. Extra questions. No reply….

I’m instructed that King Solomon Secondary is a infamous haven for baby abuse. I’m instructed that tales abound within the colleges’ WhatsApp group of comparable outrageous incidents, wrought on feminine college students by the belligerent Mrs. Ndifreke, who operates above and past the legislation, and whose conduct goes unchallenged. I might visualize her cold-heartedness from my little telephone encounter together with her this evening. She was neither remorseful nor contrite. She sounded bellicose and haughty. She will need to have gulped from the forbidden jar of intoxicating uncooked bare energy, luxuriating with the self-assurance that the authorities which ought to regulate the conduct of colleges, are too impotent and too torpid to behave. She loathes the concept she broke the Baby’s Proper Act by bodily harming a toddler that was left underneath her paid-care, on the primary day at college. After the Christmas break – the symbolism of affection itself.

I’ll let the images and movies that observe, do the remainder of the speaking. I do know that the mother and father of Udeme, reported the abuse to Ewet Housing Police Station, which issued an extract for medical help to the sufferer. I’m including my voice to sentence this unconscionable act of disproportionate violence by one more college, on the physique and flesh of the lady baby. I name on the authorities, particularly the federal government of Akwa Ibom State to swing into motion, arrest and prosecute all these concerned on this crime and take each motion vital, in the direction of saving our colleges from persevering with to function slaughterhouses for our kids.

I do know I’ve supported using sturdy disciplinary strategies in colleges previously, to assist mildew the character of the kid. However I by no means supported any type of bodily damage or breaking of the legislation to hurt anyone’s and anyone’s baby within the title of self-discipline. It occurred to my very own very pricey and valuable buddy, Udeme, as she spends this evening within the hospital. Immediately ……

#TooMuchIsTooMuch

#JusticeForUdeme

In response to the declare, the college acknowledged that Mel’s account is an exaggeration of what occurred. They confirmed that the incident centered on the scholar carrying “brief college uniform“, however accused the scholar of “rebuffing and muttering offensive phrases to the employees“.

Their assertion learn;

“On Monday, January 10, 2022, the resumption day of (the) second time period for the 2021/22 session, a feminine pupil in SS3 was noticed coming to highschool with (an) inappropriate costume, a skirt with (an) edge above the knees.

“Certainly one of our employees, Mrs Ndifreke Etim, who’s a member of the Administration Board, accosted her on grounds of the incorrect dressing, however the mentioned lady rebuffed, muttering offensive phrases to the employees, a behaviour that prompted using cane on her,” Ubong Akpan mentioned in an announcement on Tuesday.”

The varsity revealed that the lady’s mother and father weren’t happy with the incident, however that its administration have been already on the matter earlier than it was “overblown and brought to social media”.

The assertion added,

“Whereas it’s apparent that the model of the story circulated by Mr Mel is an exaggeration of the true state of issues, we acknowledge the established grievances of (the) lady’s mother and father who’ve remained dependable stakeholders in our college and have taken steps to resolve the problem amicably.

“It also needs to be identified that our college has by no means condoned baby abuse of any type, or harbour abusers. Our employees are properly cultured and our college students are bred in keeping with accepted requirements of faculty administration. The employees in query is one in every of our greatest and doesn’t deserve the disagreeable tags on her persona.”

Responding to the declare made by the college, Mel wrote,

RE: THE SORDID COLD-BLOODED ABUSE OF THE GIRL-CHILD IN KING-SOLOMON SECONDARY SCHOOL UYO, AKWA IBOM

Ordinarily, I might not have continued to hitch points with the house owners, Administration and Employees of King Solomon Secondary College – Uyo, over the now-viral case of kid torture, abuse and molestation which I painstakingly reported two days in the past, and which is attracting the eye of related law-enforcement businesses.

I’ve nonetheless been compelled out of that self-imposed hiatus to subject this assertion, by the hurriedly cobbled self-indicting Press Launch, issued by the college in the present day, twelfth January 2022, signed by one Obong Ubong Akpan who claims to be the Principal of the college whereby, my title was copiously talked about.

I’ve taken time to parse the discharge and I make daring to state as follows:

1. I have no idea the proprietor, employees or house owners of King Solomon Worldwide College. Not the least Mrs. Ndifreke Etim and so, I’ve nothing personally, in opposition to them.

2. The story of the abuse of girl-child Udeme which I broke, has simply been validated by the college as true, by the confessions contained within the mentioned press assertion.

3. Particularly, paragraph two of the press assertion, reproduced as follows, says all of it:

“On Monday, January 10, 2022, the resumption day of second time period for the 2021/22 session, a feminine pupil in SS3 was noticed coming to highschool with inappropriate costume, a skirt with edge above the knees. Certainly one of our employees, Mrs Ndifreke Etim who’s a member of the Administration Board accosted her on grounds of the incorrect dressing, however the mentioned lady rebuffed, muttering offensive phrases to the employees; a conduct that prompted using cane on her.”

4. The usage of cane on her for getting to highschool with mini-skirt and muttering offensive phrases in opposition to a Administration Board member is precisely the unarguable validation of the reality, concerning the tradition of coldblooded callous child-abuse, laceration, torture, damage, and so on., which the college and her Administration have normalized.

5. Their obstinate refusal to know that the brutality visited on citizen Udeme by them, is in opposition to the legal guidelines of the land and runs opposite to the UN conference on the rights and safety of the kid, Nigeria’s Baby Rights Act (CRA) and different legal guidelines enacted to guard kids from bullying, torture, battery, cruelty and abuse speaks quantity in regards to the type of horror underneath which kids exist within the college and of their minds.

6. Extra particularly, I want to remind King Solomon Colleges to seek out time to check the statutes, vis-à-vis their duty to the kids whom they’re paid and licensed to show. The next clauses within the Baby Rights Act (2003) readily come to thoughts:

NIGERIAN CHILD RIGHTS ACT SECTION 11.

Each baby is entitled to respect for the dignity of his particular person, and accordingly, no baby shall be:

(a) subjected to bodily, psychological or emotional damage, abuse, neglect or maltreatment, together with sexual abuse;

(b) subjected to torture, inhuman or degrading remedy or punishment

(c) subjected to assaults upon his honor or status;

NIGERIAN CHILD RIGHTS ACT SECTION 221. Restriction on punishment

(1) No baby shall be ordered to be

(a) imprisoned; or

(b) subjected to corporal punishment or

(c) subjected to the demise penalty or, have the demise penalty recorded in opposition to him.

7. By making an attempt to show the story in opposition to me as one Celestine Mel and exonerating the assailant/baby abuser – Mrs Ndifreke from blame, whom the assertion venerates as one in every of our greatest and doesn’t deserve the disagreeable tags on her persona I dare say, King Solomon remains to be residing within the fading phantasm that the college and her promoters are above the legislation and would proceed to advertise their tradition of violence primarily based on so-called excessive ethical customary with zero tolerance for indiscipline with out regrets.

8. The bodily torture of citizen Udeme, irrespective of her offense, whom they admittedly and wickedly bruised and scarred, has performed extra harm to the already dented picture of the college than I might probably do.

9. It’s not true that the college took any steps to succeed in out to the mother and father of the sufferer to assuage the harm and trauma that they visited on their baby till I broke the story. Certainly, they began working from pillar to put up after it turned apparent yesterday that my expose would flip the worlds consideration to their reprehensible (and illegal) modus operandi. They’ve despatched a number of emissaries to me to tug down the story in order to guard the funding that the late proprietor made in class. I’ve all of the conversations recorded within the clouds and would publish them on the applicable time if the necessity arises.

10. What I’ve nor coronary heart is what they might do to re-orientated their abusive board members on trendy baby care strategies and penance for the callous brutality on citizen Udeme.

10. The general public ought to be aware that I reached out to the college on the evening of tenth January 2022 (12 hours after the incident) to listen to their facet of the story for stability, however Mrs. Ndifreke roundly and arrogantly rejected the chance and selected slightly to threaten me with courtroom motion if I dared publish this damming expose. I revealed this story after I used to be satisfied that they broke the legislation and have been merciless.

11. This complete subject means a lot to me (a proud father of tender children myself and the son of a trainer who was a strict disciplinarian himself) and I might by no means stand anybody who brutalizes my baby the best way Mrs. Ndifreke did, irrespective of the provocation. Torture is just not self-discipline. Damage is just not morality.

Lastly, I undertook this undertaking with the intention to spark frank dialog about these accepted abusive practices, to attract international consideration to the scourge of kid abuse in our surroundings and to let folks know that we now have left the barbarian age way back. Torture and molestation that also exist in our college system is just not solely injurious to the kid, however breeds additional violence which metastasizes to create the violent society all of us dwell in in the present day. Extra so, it’s a crime. It’s unthinkable {that a} licensed college would admit publicly (on this century) that it used cane on a 16-year previous as a result of she wore skirts above her knees and muttered abusive phrases to a administration employees to the extent of lacerating her physique; and is gutsy sufficient to say that the general public ought to disregard any publication looking for to discredit our college as it’s our continued imaginative and prescient to boost accountable people within the society, give worth to training system in addition to relentlessly advocate for the fitting of each baby. Everybody involved with this dastardly act have to be punished to function deterrent to different colleges, who make violence in opposition to kids their go-to pastime. We will unravel this.

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