Connect with us

VIDEO

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

Published

on

The administration of a non-public secondary college in Akwa Ibom State has responded to an allegation of kid abuse made towards one in all its workers.

2021

A Fb consumer, Celestine Mel took to the platform to share pictures of the coed recognized merely as Udeme, alleging that she was crushed ruthlessly by a workers of the college, King Solomon Secondary College in Uyo.

Mel revealed that the SS3 scholar is his relation’s daughter and alleged that she bought crushed as a result of her “college uniform was too quick and goes towards the Bible“.

3

about

He wrote,

When a relation of mine forwarded disturbing pictures, relating to the bestial brutality visited on her daughter, who’s an SS3 scholar 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 as we speak, I used to be initially hesitant to consider 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 give attention to my to-do record and the various Monday conferences. So, I let it’s.

Strive as I may, my thoughts didn’t depart from these scorching footage. I saved prancing between Microsoft Tasks Workplace Swimsuit, (which is my main work software), and the WhatsApp webpage which I used to archive the ghoulish footage. Every go to to WhatsApp haunted me like a foul dream. I began hating myself and my atmosphere. I used to be feeling tormented, raped and brutalized. I scoffed on the lack of empathy and style, that would have provoke such violence by whomsoever, on my pal – Udeme. A few of ugly movies are too graphic to share. Whodunnit?

Upon returning house this evening, I demanded for and bought the cellphone variety of the beastly child-abuser. A lady for actual? I used to be stuffed 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 aspect 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:

“Whats up, my identify 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.

“Pricey madam Ndi, I bought this disturbing info relating to an incident in your college as we speak, tenth January 2022, whereby you have got been accused of beating your scholar – Udeme and inflicting critical bodily harm to her. I need to hear your individual aspect of the story. What occurred?” I requested.

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

From her tone, it was very simple to infer that I simply spoke to a wickedly merciless monstrous and unapologetically cruel little one bully. I couldn’t think about myself caught up on this form of story, akin to the latest shenanigans in Dowen School Lagos. Or the Deeper Life Excessive College Uyo. I wanted to get to the basis of this. I known 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 in school, accusing her of violating the college’s costume code. The cost was that her college uniform was too quick, and goes towards the Bible, which (based on 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 pinnacle 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 battle zone. The pinnacle 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 little one? Who? How? Why? Questions. Extra questions. No reply….

I’m advised that King Solomon Secondary is a infamous haven for little one abuse. I’m advised 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 regulation, and whose conduct goes unchallenged. I may visualize her cold-heartedness from my little cellphone encounter along 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 that she broke the Little one’s Proper Act by bodily harming a baby that was left beneath her paid-care, on the primary day in school. 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 dad and mom 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 woman little one. 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 needed, in direction of saving our colleges from persevering with to function slaughterhouses for our youngsters.

I do know I’ve supported the usage of robust disciplinary strategies in colleges prior to now, to assist mildew the character of the kid. However I by no means supported any type of bodily harm or breaking of the regulation to hurt any person’s and anyone’s little one within the identify of self-discipline. It occurred to my very own very pricey and valuable pal, Udeme, as she spends this evening within the hospital. At present ……

#TooMuchIsTooMuch

#JusticeForUdeme

accepted

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 coed carrying “quick college uniform“, however accused the coed of “rebuffing and muttering offensive phrases to the workers“.

Their assertion learn;

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

“Certainly one of our workers, Mrs Ndifreke Etim, who’s a member of the Administration Board, accosted her on grounds of the fallacious dressing, however the mentioned woman rebuffed, muttering offensive phrases to the workers, a behaviour that prompted the usage of cane on her,” Ubong Akpan mentioned in a press release on Tuesday.”

Accountability

The college revealed that the woman’s dad and mom weren’t happy with the incident, however that its administration had 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) woman’s dad and mom who’ve remained dependable stakeholders in our faculty and have taken steps to resolve the difficulty amicably.

“It must also be recognized that our faculty has by no means condoned little one abuse of any variety, or harbour abusers. Our workers are properly cultured and our college students are bred in keeping with accepted requirements of faculty administration. The workers in query is one in all our greatest and doesn’t deserve the disagreeable tags on her character.”

Accused

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’d not have continued to affix points with the homeowners, Administration and Workers 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 nevertheless been compelled out of that self-imposed hiatus to situation this assertion, by the hurriedly cobbled self-indicting Press Launch, issued by the college as we speak, twelfth January 2022, signed by one Obong Ubong Akpan who claims to be the Principal of the college whereby, my identify 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, workers or homeowners of King Solomon Worldwide College. Not the least Mrs. Ndifreke Etim and so, I’ve nothing personally, towards 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 scholar in SS3 was noticed coming to high school with inappropriate costume, a skirt with edge above the knees. Certainly one of our workers, Mrs Ndifreke Etim who’s a member of the Administration Board accosted her on grounds of the fallacious dressing, however the mentioned woman rebuffed, muttering offensive phrases to the workers; a habits that prompted the usage of cane on her.”

4. Using cane on her for getting to high school with mini-skirt and muttering offensive phrases towards a Administration Board member is strictly the unarguable validation of the reality, relating to the tradition of coldblooded callous child-abuse, laceration, torture, harm, and so on., which the college and her Administration have normalized.

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

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

NIGERIAN CHILD RIGHTS ACT SECTION 11.

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

(a) subjected to bodily, psychological or emotional harm, 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 popularity;

NIGERIAN CHILD RIGHTS ACT SECTION 221. Restriction on punishment

(1) No little one shall be ordered to be

(a) imprisoned; or

(b) subjected to corporal punishment or

(c) subjected to the dying penalty or, have the dying penalty recorded towards him.

7. By making an attempt to show the story towards me as one Celestine Mel and exonerating the assailant/little one abuser – Mrs Ndifreke from blame, whom the assertion venerates as one in all our greatest and doesn’t deserve the disagreeable tags on her character I dare say, King Solomon remains to be residing within the fading phantasm that the college and her promoters are above the regulation and would proceed to advertise their tradition of violence based mostly on so-called excessive ethical commonplace 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 achieved extra harm to the already dented picture of the college than I may probably do.

9. It’s not true that the college took any steps to achieve out to the dad and mom of the sufferer to assuage the damage and trauma that they visited on their little one till I broke the story. Certainly, they began operating 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 fashionable little one 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 aspect of the story for steadiness, however Mrs. Ndifreke roundly and arrogantly rejected the chance and selected moderately to threaten me with court docket motion if I dared publish this damming expose. I printed this story after I used to be satisfied that they broke the regulation and had been merciless.

11. This complete situation means a lot to me (a proud father of tender youngsters myself and the son of a instructor who was a strict disciplinarian himself) and I’d by no means stand anybody who brutalizes my little one the way in which Mrs. Ndifreke did, irrespective of the provocation. Torture is just not self-discipline. Damage is just not morality.

Lastly, I undertook this venture with the intention to spark frank dialog about these accepted abusive practices, to attract world consideration to the scourge of kid abuse in the environment and to let individuals know that we now have left the barbarian age way back. Torture and molestation that also exist in our faculty 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 as we speak. 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 outdated as a result of she wore skirts above her knees and muttered abusive phrases to a administration workers to the extent of lacerating her physique; and is gutsy sufficient to say that the general public ought to disregard any publication in search of to discredit our faculty as it’s our continued imaginative and prescient to boost accountable people within the society, give worth to schooling system in addition to relentlessly advocate for the fitting of each little one. Everybody involved with this dastardly act should be punished to function deterrent to different colleges, who make violence towards kids their go-to pastime. We will unravel this.

advocate