The Bauchi State Government on Monday abolished capital punishments in secondary schools across the state.

The state Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Aminu Ibrahim, made this known when he addressed secondary school principals in his office in Bauchi.

Ibrahim, said that the State Government would no longer tolerate any form of capital punishment on any student across the state.

``Henceforth punishment in schools should be a punishment that will add value to the school, such as clearing of waste, weeding of grasses, drainage clearing, sweeping and other related punishment,’’ he said.

Ibrahim also urged principals to monitor students, guard against examination malpractice and any other social vices.

The commissioner said that principals should be vigilant to ensure that all visitors were identified before entering into school premises.

He said that government would organise a capacity building on ICT for all principals and their deputies in 17 centres for effective use of the laptops and other equipment.

http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/bauchi-govt-abolishes-capital-punishments-schools

^^^^I found this very funny. I imagine it was 'corporal punishment' that they wanted to say in this report, but was it the Governor or the reporter that used the word 'CAPITAL PUNISHMENT?'

ypzilanti: ^^^^I found this very funny. I imagine it was 'corporal punishment' that they wanted to say in this report, but was it the Governor or the reporter that used the word 'CAPITAL PUNISHMENT?'

I been fear small say maybe them dey execute pupils for Bauchi State.

bokohalal:

I been fear small say maybe them dey execute pupils for Bauchi State.

Yes o, boko haram de help execute the capital punishment

Commissioner of education I de salute you, well done

@poster, I think you mean corporal punishment.

Rossikk: @poster, I think you mean corporal punishment.

Not from the poster, check the source

Good.Capital punishments add no value and corrects no one.physical and mental exercises is a better form of correction.

ifyalways: Good.Capital punishments add no value and corrects no one.physical and mental exercises is a better form of correction.

^^^Ifyalways, i think 'capital punishment' is a bit of an overkill considering we're just trying to correct childrens misdemeanor; but i know you meant corporal punishment .

I was flogged but never flogged anyone when i became a 'senior'; of course i perfected the art of 'padding' my shorts well-well, and creating such a scene after the first stroke that the flogger would just give up .

You need to see the way some kids are flogged in secondary school! .....only sadists would get pleasure from inflicting such pain on a kid, and it just helps to dehumanize us as a people.

Capital punishment?! No sh*t.

Long overdue. Corporal punishment is barbaric.

i was worried o, i thought they were killings kids for being late to school... lol thats why i open the post lmao

Too bad for some guys: For me, being corporally punished only afforded me the opportunity to show off my 'machoness' and impress the girls. Asides that, it's pretty useless, IMO. lol

Gud tok.bt no amount of punishment reach poverty n hunger.we re already b punished by our Government..

Spare the rod ad spoil the child.

They had to. If a teacher flogs the child of a Boko haramist, the teacher and the school will be bombed.

Wise decision governor.

They kill them?

You guys are missing the whole point of the post:

A reporter wrote 'capital punishment' instead of corporal punishment. The editor approved the article and it was printed that way. They then went ahead to put the same news on the internet without correction. The news is out on google news aggregator and other news aggregators too. People all over the world are reading the news asking WTF?

I though it was abolishing Shariah Law! If you can't lash the kids when they are young, why lash them when they become adults! You don't lash them for stealing when they are young but will cut their hand off when they are older!

Capital punishment? Is that like Rowan Atkinson's fatal beatings?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMoB6ms2mE

Which one be capital punishment before?
So what ll they do to students aside clearing waste, cutting grass or caning? Will they behead , shoot or bomb them?
Somebody should pls sight a sample of this capital punishment.
During my sec sch days, the height of punishment is 24 strokes of cane, working in the school farm or wash our ever dirty-flies-coackroch infested-contaminated pit laterine. Gosh! U ll neva wanna experience it.

Na cain sure pass. If some pikin neva see cain their brain no go work. Most student wey i know na cain be their language. So why stopping caining. We no go gree o we no go gree.

why now? Kill all of them bad children jor

Capital punishment or corporal punishment?

Oops! I forgot Boko is haram for them.

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Nigerians are daft!

NOOOO
IT IS CAPORAL PURNISHMEN

OLODO WITH BIG LETTER

Le Ostrich: [size=40pt]CORPRAL PUNISHMENTS NOT CAPITAL[/size]

Nigerians are daft!

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Nigerians are daft!

Le Ostrich: [size=40pt]CORPRAL PUNISHMENTS NOT CAPITAL[/size]

Nigerians are daft!

Le Ostrich: [size=40pt]CORPRAL PUNISHMENTS NOT CAPITAL[/size]

Nigerians are daft!

Now who is daft??

ZACHIE: NOOOO
IT IS CAPORAL PURNISHMEN

OLODO WITH BIG LETTER

lmao

Even with capital, corporal, police punishment... whatever!, the kids dont respect their teachers. Now that the governor had vetoed against it, these guy will be going to skool with b**b!
A lion can never begat a sheep.

I thought Capital punishment was 'Death by hanging'
Is that what they have been doing to school children?

It is spelt "corporal" not "corpral" or "coporal", lesser Otondos.