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

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

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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 workers of the college, King Solomon Secondary Faculty in Uyo.

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

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He wrote,

When a relation of mine forwarded disturbing photos, concerning the bestial brutality visited on her daughter, who’s an SS3 pupil of King Solomon Secondary Faculty, 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 at the moment, 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 concentrate on my to-do listing and the numerous Monday conferences. So, I let it’s.

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

Upon returning dwelling this evening, I demanded for and bought the cellphone variety of the beastly child-abuser. A girl for actual? I used to be full of 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 truthful 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:

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

“Sure, that is Ndifreke”. She answered.

“Pricey madam Ndi, I bought this disturbing info concerning an incident in your faculty at the moment, tenth January 2022, whereby you might have been accused of beating your pupil – Udeme and inflicting severe bodily harm to her. I wish to hear your personal aspect of the story. What occurred?” I requested.

“I can not converse 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 youngster 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 Faculty Uyo. I wanted to get to the foundation of this. I referred to as up my relations and requested them if they’d 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 gown code. The cost was that her faculty uniform was too brief, and goes in opposition to the Bible, which (in response to Ndifreke) varieties the ethical pillar of the college. She needed 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 many others. From the pinnacle to her again, shoulder, thighs, legs, and many others. There have been bumps, blood and bruises. She appeared like a fortunate survivor, out from a bombed-out rubble in a struggle 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 dwelling by foot, a number of kilometers away. Alone. With no mercy. Or cash. Or pity.

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

I’m informed that King Solomon Secondary is a infamous haven for youngster abuse. I’m informed 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 might visualize her cold-heartedness from my little cellphone 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 that she broke the Little one’s Proper Act by bodily harming a baby that was left below her paid-care, on the primary day at college. After the Christmas break – the symbolism of affection itself.

I’ll let the photographs and movies that comply with, 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 faculty, on the physique and flesh of the woman youngster. 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 obligatory, in direction of saving our colleges from persevering with to function slaughterhouses for our youngsters.

I do know I’ve supported using sturdy disciplinary strategies in colleges up to now, to assist mould the character of the kid. However I by no means supported any type of bodily harm or breaking of the regulation to hurt someone’s and anyone’s youngster within the identify of self-discipline. It occurred to my very own very expensive and treasured good friend, Udeme, as she spends this evening within the hospital. As we speak ……

#TooMuchIsTooMuch

#JusticeForUdeme

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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 sporting “brief faculty uniform“, however accused the scholar 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 pupil in SS3 was noticed coming to highschool with (an) inappropriate gown, a skirt with (an) edge above the knees.

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

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The college revealed that the woman’s mother and father 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 mother and father who’ve remained dependable stakeholders in our faculty and have taken steps to resolve the difficulty amicably.

“It also needs to be recognized that our faculty has by no means condoned youngster abuse of any type, or harbour abusers. Our workers are nicely cultured and our college students are bred according to accepted requirements of college administration. The workers in query is one among our greatest and doesn’t deserve the disagreeable tags on her persona.”

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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 house owners, Administration and Workers of King Solomon Secondary Faculty – 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 companies.

I’ve nevertheless been compelled out of that self-imposed hiatus to problem this assertion, by the hurriedly cobbled self-indicting Press Launch, issued by the college at the moment, 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 house owners of King Solomon Worldwide Faculty. 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 gown, a skirt with edge above the knees. One in all our workers, Mrs Ndifreke Etim who’s a member of the Administration Board accosted her on grounds of the improper dressing, however the mentioned woman rebuffed, muttering offensive phrases to the workers; 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, harm, and many others., which the college and her Administration have normalized.

5. Their obstinate refusal to grasp 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 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 type of horror below which kids exist within the faculty and of their minds.

6. Extra particularly, I want to remind King Solomon Faculties to search out time to review the statutes, vis-à-vis their duty 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 youngster is entitled to respect for the dignity of his individual, and accordingly, no youngster 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 therapy or punishment

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

NIGERIAN CHILD RIGHTS ACT SECTION 221. Restriction on punishment

(1) No youngster shall be ordered to be

(a) imprisoned; or

(b) subjected to corporal punishment or

(c) subjected to the loss of life penalty or, have the loss of life penalty recorded in opposition to him.

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

8. The bodily torture of citizen Udeme, regardless 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 achieve out to the mother and father of the sufferer to assuage the harm and trauma that they visited on their youngster 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 drag down the story in order to guard the funding that the late proprietor made at school. 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’d do to re-orientated their abusive board members on fashionable youngster care methods and penance for the callous brutality on citizen Udeme.

10. The general public ought to notice 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 relatively to threaten me with court docket motion if I dared publish this damming expose. I revealed this story after I used to be satisfied that they broke the regulation and had been merciless.

11. This whole problem means a lot to me (a proud father of tender youngsters myself and the son of a trainer who was a strict disciplinarian himself) and I’d by no means stand anybody who brutalizes my youngster the way in which Mrs. Ndifreke did, regardless of the provocation. Torture isn’t self-discipline. Damage isn’t morality.

Lastly, I undertook this challenge 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 folks know that we now have left the barbarian age way back. Torture and molestation that also exist in our faculty system isn’t solely injurious to the kid, however breeds additional violence which metastasizes to create the violent society all of us stay in at the moment. Extra so, it’s a crime. It’s unthinkable {that a} licensed faculty 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 looking for to discredit our faculty as it’s our continued imaginative and prescient to lift accountable people within the society, give worth to training system in addition to relentlessly advocate for the appropriate of each youngster. 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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