Some suspected thugs have attacked and brutalized the Vice Principal of Complete Child Development College Aule, Akure for not allowing a their child who is writing WAEC exam to cheat with his handset.
Roving Reporters gathered that the suspects also attacked police Van conveying the vice Principal before he was brutally beaten.
It was gathered that the thugs were paid by Parents of the student from the school for disallowing his child to cheat with a handset during this ongoing WAEC.
The mother has allegedly threatened to kill him and any member of the school authority if her child is not allowed to cheat during the forthcoming mathematics examination, which is up next week.
Confirming the incident, the state government went in details how the attack occurred in a preliminary investigation Carried out.
The report reads, “The incident started on Monday May 26, when an android phone was found with one SS 3 student which is contrary to the rules and regulations of the school and Mr Rotifa, the vice principal of the school seized the phone from him.
“On Thursday, the mother of the student came to the school to fight with the school management so much that the proprietor of the school ordered that the phone be returned to her which was done.
“The brother of the student who happens to be an old student of the school later came to the school to harass the vice principal and threatened to deal him.
“After school hours the boys were seen loitering in the street and the proprietor was informed who told Mr Rotifa to go to the police station to lodge complaint.
“He went and two policemen took him in their van to look for the boys probably for arrest.
They couldn’t get them. As they were going back to the station, the boys waylaid the Police Van, stopped it, brought out Mr Rotifa and beat him up. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.
“According to the principal of the school, he has been discharged from the hospital but did not go back to his house for the fear of the boys coming back for him.
“Further investigations and efforts to get the culprit are in progress.
“Arrangements for the safety of the staff and students of the school for period of the remaining papers in WASSCE are ongoing.”
Director of Schools,
Ondo State Ministry of Education
