By Mobolaji Sanusi
Watching the trending video of budding hooligan children of the Lead British Worldwide College, Abuja provides me goosebumps. I watched, with nice concern, how a demonic lady of the varsity tortured a fellow lady scholar in what has now contemporarily gained traction as ‘bullying.’
As a dad or mum, seeing a younger, innocently weak lady being inflicted with such crass barbarity by better-imprisoned-fellow scholar leaves bitter style within the mouth.
The barrages of slaps, the hopelessness of the child sufferer and the prison audacity of the assailant college students to video such cruelty and the discharge of such on the social media is a elementary flaw within the administration system in that intellectual college. It calls to query the seriousness of householders of the varsity to supply real schooling that’s devoid of brutality.
The viciousness within the viral video is almost definitely to not be the primary of its variety in that college, judging from the prison minded college students’ confidence. Nonetheless, that viral video uncovered the act as being one too many. And a cease should be put to it by related authorities.
The cruelty suffered by that victimized lady can solely be administered, not by any well-brought-up child college students, however by wild and demon-possessed kids that shouldn’t be delight to any good mother and father.
Such demonic kids/college students seen within the viral video can’t be a type of groomed as future trustees of our pricey nation. She and her likes are higher saved in welfare properties and dealt with with iron arms for inflicting barbarity on fellow beings.
So tough to fathom that any mother and father would pay tens of millions of naira every year in a personality missing overrated college to warrant such inhuman remedy on their wards. The Lead British Worldwide college based in 2007 is nothing however a jungle the place college students are maltreated by fellow college students with out the varsity administration feigning to not find out about it.
Does it imply Hon. Wale Oke, chairman of its board, the top trainer and others educational and non educational members of workers of the varsity have by no means heard of such bullying acts within the college earlier than this final incident? What concrete steps had been taken to forestall such cruelty or had been they overlaying up due to their insatiable urge for food for income for the varsity? Have they got parental blood flowing of their veins? Would they tolerate such aberrant infliction on their organic children? They’re responsible and owe the world unreserved apology for wanting the opposite method whereas such ugly maltreatments went on throughout the college’s territory.
The Lead British Worldwide College, with its trending video of inhumanity on social media can’t be a world-class schooling offering college for kids primarily based on the English Nationwide Curriculum and purportedly blended with the Nigerian. The college can’t be one which fosters a love of studying by offering a difficult, wealthy and broad schooling.
Slightly, with their insensitive administration that’s irresponsive to weak college students’ welfare and wellbeing, the varsity ought to higher be closed down in order to ship the specified sign to different colleges grooming demonic children as college students of their jurisdictions.
The litany of instances of scholars bullying with questionable conclusions within the historical past of this nation are too many. This obvious lack of denouement to those avoidable instances have put mother and father of victims on the receiving finish. It has additionally proven related authorities as not successfully accountable for licensing colleges the place well-behaved college students are groomed.
As an illustration, instances of a weak instructional licensing system in place throughout the nation are very troubling to the hearts. One might simply recollect Sylvester Oromoni, a scholar of Dowen Faculty and solely son of his mother and father, who died on November 30, 2021 after nursing a number of inner accidents he reportedly sustained after being crushed by fellow college students who had been bullying him at his college’s boarding home. The younger boy was stated to have refused to succumb to pressures from aberrant fellow college students to affix a cult group. Moments earlier than he died, he confessed to his mother and father that 5 boys stormed his room, delay the lights, and beat him up within the presence of different college students earlier than feeding him with a chemical for refusing to affix the “cult group.” His case resulted in extremely contentious method.
Karen-Happuch Akpagher, a 14 years previous boarding scholar of Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Abuja additionally died of sexual assault problems on June 2021. A condom was stated to have been left in her personal half.
Karen’s mom, Vivien Akpagher, accused her college of defending a suspected pedophile with a blistering media stunt to avoid wasting their face. Nothing concrete was accomplished to the demonic children of that college that killed Karen just because the varsity and the related authorities allegedly compromised on the expense of justice for Karen.
Moreover, Don Davis, an 11 years previous scholar of Deeper Life Excessive College, Uyo, reportedly died from bodily and sexual molestation from his seniors. He was additionally starved by the varsity authority for bedwetting till his loss of life on December 2020. The ugly torture he went by was revealed in a video posted by his mom, Deborah Okezie on the social media. Until date, his soul continues to be crying for justice from a complicit college and a weak system within the nation.
Yahaya Aliyu, a 13 years previous JSS2 scholar of Authorities Secondary College, Kwali, Abuja was crushed to loss of life by his trainer in August 2021.
The top of justice has not been served until now regardless of the case being taken up by the FCT Police command in addition to the varsity’s Outdated College students Affiliation.
These instructional maladies can’t proceed if really the nation is critical about utilizing colleges to construct good character and uphold desired values in our society. Bullies, irrespective of who their mother and father are, shouldn’t be in colleges however welfare properties the place their aberrant conducts may be reformed.
The federal government ought to be sure that the tip of justice is served on this final bully case. The culprits needs to be expelled from the varsity, and the varsity severely sanctioned for failure to instill self-discipline in its jurisdiction. No college administration needs to be allowed to show their territories into breeding floor for future political thugs and societal vermin.
Additionally, mother and father ought to, henceforth, be vicariously liable and prosecuted, as a matter of state coverage, for the prison misconduct of their children. The affected colleges and oldsters needs to be made to pay heavy compensation for the prison misdeeds of their wards. The victims’ mother and father may strategy the court docket for compensation. With this, parental/college aiding and abetting of aberrant children shall be drastically diminished.
The federal government wants not be complacent however promptly and firmly intervene now to function deterrence to different colleges/mother and father harbouring hooligans in college students’ costumes.
- Sanusi is a Lagos primarily based company authorized marketing consultant.