Some teachers at Anglican High School and Adenle Middle School in Osogbo narrowly escaped being shot when some cultists invaded the school compound and chased out teachers.
The school which houses student population of about 7,000 is made up of Anglican High School 1-5 and some students of Adenle Middle School.
Our correspondent gathered on Thursday that [size=14pt]the crisis was caused by some students who knew they could not pass[/size] the qualifying examination the state wanted to conduct to select those whose WAEC fee would be paid by the state government.
But some said the crisis started last Friday when a student identified as Toib and his colleagues stormed the school premises with dane guns to attack a member of Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme ( O’ YES cadet) who they had issues with.
A teacher told our correspondent that Toib and his gang chased a female Home Economics teacher out of the class when the trouble started.
The invasion of the school forced other students and workers to flee.
The Friday invasion was said to have forced the school authorities to invite policemen [size=14pt]but the cultists mobilised more members and attacked the police even on Monday.[/size]
The development, it was gathered led to the instruction given to the teachers by the Nigeria Union of Teachers that all teachers should stay away from school because of the threat to their lives.
It was further learnt that the Osun State Ministry of Education had also closed down the school to prevent any death.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Lawrence Oyeniran, when contacted declined to make any comment on the crisis.
He said, ” This is a subject I don’t want to talk about. Maybe you can see the deputy governor and ask her your questions.”
However, the NUT chairman, Mr. Amudah Wakeel, when contacted said the crisis was so serious, adding that some of the teachers were lucky to have escaped being shot dead by the rampaging cultists.
Wakeel said, ” Some cultists among the students invaded the school. They wanted to kill some of the teachers. They took dane guns to the school but our members were fortunate.
“A member of ‘OYES’ cadet was injured with an axe by the students but he survived. The police were deployed to prevent the situation from leading to loss of lives. We have instructed our members to stay away from the school because of the threat to their lives.
“The union has the power to instruct members not to go to school if their lives were threatened and this is exactly what happened. The teachers stopped going to school and the government has closed down the school.”
The Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, when contacted told our corespondent that seven suspects were arrested in connection with the crisis.
It will be recalled that a teacher at the Oosgbo High School was injured with an axe following the bloody clash between students of the school and students of Government Technical College, Osogbo, in 2014.


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Are these students crazy? This is one of the reason why am afraid to teach o, though I don't blame them, they are from Osun state.
Toib again? why always Muslim? Is this what the Holy Quran teach?

Osun again?? "Will Good Thing Come Outta Osun??

Here to read commet

We are now Americans where school shooting is the order of the day.

I say bravo to USA for this invention.

Students/pupils indiscipline in Osun state particularly started during the time of Adebisi Akande when he degraded the teaching profession. Akande asked the teacher not to flog any students for poor academic performance that teachers too are dullards. The evil Akande planted then has been growing since then consuming primary/secondary education. Subsequent governments after him were unable to undo the damages he created.

Aregbesola too followed the line of Akande. He only backed down when teachers called some of his poor education policies into question just befor his second term election. All in all, indiscipline we are witnessing today in Osun state is brought about by government playing politics with education.

Secondary school of 7000 students!
This is what happens when you sieze schools and force them to take in more than they're supposed to, all in the name of free education. Hand these schools back to the freaking missionaries and let them set their own standards!
Formal education should NOT be forced. Many of these students had no business in schools in the first place.

Jonathan sef

MCMLXXVI:
Secondary school of 7000 students!
This is what happens when you sieze schools and force them to take in more than they're supposed to, all in the name of free education. Hand these schools back to the freaking missionaries and let them set their own standards!
Formal education should NOT be forced. Many of these students had no business in schools in the first place.

Ó yà mí lénu o

Our fathers use to say " when a child want to be an unfortunate child, he/she will start experiencing pain in the neck.

cc Dominique, Lalasticlala

Won't you feature this on the frontpage?