Lagos School Where Pupils Smell Others’ Buttocks As Punishment

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Nigerian parents have heard of myriad of punishments meted out to pupils in schools, but making them to smell one another’s buttocks appears to be taking punishment level to the limit. But this is what an angry parent, Mr. Saviour Iche, alleged said happened in his children’s school.

Speaking to New Telegraph, he urged the Lagos State Government to investigate Premier Fountain College, located at Ijegun Lagos. His words: “A teacher in that school once flogged my seven year- old son and inflicted bruises on him.

Anytime I drew the attention of the management to the torture, they would beg. Torture and brutality of children are going on in the school; other students have complained. A particular teacher forced pupils to smell one another’s buttocks. I want the teacher responsible for brutalising my son to be investigated and made to face the wrath of the law.”

He further said: “It happened last year. My kid was three year plus. One of the kids in the class farted. The teacher ordered them to start smelling one another’s buttocks, to know who farted. My daughter refused. She was punished.”

Iche, who described himself as the National President of Citizens Protection and Enlightenment Initiative, a human rights organisation, further said he had heard of so many atrocious acts happening in the school, especially child brutality.

He said that whenever he goes to the school to confront the school over the insensitive punishment meted out to pupils, the school management would plead with him. He, however, now finally decided to jettison their pleas, after he returned home one fateful day and saw cane welts over the body of his 11-year-old son, a Junior Secondary School 1 student. Iche was infuriated after he asked his son who caned him and learned that it was a teacher in the school.

He claimed that but for the quick medical attention given by his wife, the boy would probably have died. The management of Premier Fountain College however, denied the allegations.

The school insisted that Iche’s son was disciplined because he and his sister teamed up to fight another student. Iche, who had already lodged a complaint at the Isheri Ijegun Police Station, Lagos State, said he decided to report the matter so that necessary actions would be taken because this was the second time he would be seeing signs of torture on his kid’s bodies.