₦airaland Forum

aremubabs:
➜You are not getting it, are you? The public space, in my argument, is not you and I, but the people she reported internal matters to, instead of reporting to the school management. A crime might, of course, become a public affair, except in very rare cases. But that is not my argument.
➜My argument is that the headmistress heard about an incident in her school through an outsider whom the complainant (a staff of the school) told. You don't know how disrespectful that is. Let me give you an instance. You are at work, and someone calls you that your husband told him that you didn't leave money for breakfast. Would it not sound disrespectful to you that an internal issue had to be communicated to you, not by a member of your household, but by an outsider? You don't take internal matters straight to the public, that is my argument. And when I say public, I meant the people she took the matter to.

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Is the victim in question a property of the school business such that any crimes or violations of his basic human right should be handled not by the police who are in charge of enforcing rights and law in the country but by the school/headmistress?

2. Is the complainant a property of the school rather than a citizen of the country— Nigeria — whose law clearly states that assault is against the Law and should be reported? What in the world is up with you people? The crime may have been committed in the school but last I checked the school is not a sovereign entity that you should think to assert its jurisdiction over what should be common sense in the country itself.

Zackattack:
➜Mr sociopath, so you haven’t seen a mother slap her own child before.
➜Even though it is wrong, does it mean she’s trying to kill her own child too.

A mother slapping her child is said to have assaulted her child. All those ADs against violence in the homes are there to help make people like you sensitive about such things and quickly run to report it when you see it because such things are not normal or should no longer be seen as normal.

So, it is only when someone is being killed that you would consider it a crime. 😩😩😩😩😩

BoldBrainz:
I've seen how you're very committed to arguing with everyone with a divergent view from yours on this thread, and I have absolutely no intentions to do same. I've said my piece and my perspective makes sense to me. Stick to yours, since it feels right to you.

So, if you or your mother are slapped by a person out there on the street, you will choose to brush it off each time even though the law which guides interaction between citizens clearly states that assault of any kind is a crime? 😩😩😩

I am really trying my best here to understand how folks like you reason these things.

ibtommy:
➜No,bro. My concern us fir all of them. Don't see it that way. If my child complains about something going wrong in the school, I swing into action immediately. That's what she should have done to [b]forestall stories like this.[/b]

Huh?

I hope you are not suggesting that this mother had to have superhuman powers or something.

aremubabs:
➜Stop shifting the goalpost. The woman ran to her pastor, not the police. And the argument was never about the police. It was about taking a matter straight to the public.

So, if she had gone directly to the police rather than to her pastor, the matter would have been kept from public space? 😩😩😩😩

What is wrong with the way you folks reason for Pete's sake?

BoldBrainz:
➜Oya na. You people should declare national public holidays so you can have enough time to make noise and compel the courts to hand her a life sentence! Mtscheew.

So, if you or your mother are slapped by a person out there on the street, you will choose to brush it off each time even though the law which guides interaction between citizens clearly states that assault of any kind is a crime? 😩😩😩

I am really trying my best here to understand how folks like you reason these things.

ibtommy:
➜Whatever! Na something God go use uplift person. I just pity that teacher. Make dem have mercy on her biko. Make dem settle the matter amicably. It's well with you, boy. Your mama should have saved the you early enough. Early approach would have saved the culprit from this public ridicule and unnecessary litigation. Your don kept complaining, but you probably felt you should keep quiet about it until someone gave you an evidence. That wasn't quite good a decision, ma. See wetin you cause for both the victim and the accused now

The victim here is the 3-year-old child who has to deal with this traumatic experience and possibly a problem with his hearing as a result. But your concern is instead the welfare of the bully who attacked him and caused him harm? WOW!

aremubabs:
➜So, if you work in a bank and one of your colleagues is into fraud.➜You will record him and pass the information around outside the bank. I am not sure you have a corporate life. Maybe you are a student or one of those "self-employed" people. Wait until you employ one person, then you will understand why organizations have disciplinary committees and HR teams.

You don't know that when a crime is committed, the right people to contact are the police? Are you people OK at all?

Now I am concerned... how can a grown individual not be aware of this simple fact abeg?

AK481:
➜Why do children keep dreadlocks?

Why can't they?

ElSudani:
➜Some love. Some Nigerians are undiagnosed sociopaths.

Dem plenty ! 🤐🤐🤐🤐

aremubabs:
➜One day, when you own your own business, and information gets outside first before getting to your table, then you will understand what I am rambling about. When your subordinates bypass you to report workplace incidents to the public, then you will appreciate my rambling.

A crime is regarded as information for running a business. Are you sure you are OK at all?

Zackattack:
➜Go and kill her because she was ignorant of how to properly teach a child.
➜No one is saying that what she did is right, but she could be doing that from a place of love.
➜Back in the days, school teachers have done worse and called it discipline.

Why are you people so depraved in your reasoning?

2. Why should she be slapping the boy from a place of love? Are you OK at all?

3. Depravity was mislabeled as a form of discipline back in the day. Even though we now know better and the Laws have been updated to condemn ignorance, it should remain OK? Are you people people alright at all? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Maxtipulation:
I said it, it was a fellow teacher that recorded the incident to implicate her fear Yoruba people

Oh, I see! So, everyone who sees crime happening should instead continue to turn the other way? You are a true Nigerian in the fashion that is Nigeria and Nigerians today.... clap for yourself!

Image123:
➜Let's build massive prisons nationwide then, we need to enforce this law.

The alternative is to continue lowering the bar on crime — not enforce laws —and let criminals run amock. Oh wait, that is already happening nationwide even with the prisons overflowing. Nonsense! 🙄🙄🙄

BoldBrainz:
➜Everything about Nigerians is sensationalism. We have this repulsive habit of giving maximum energy to minor issues. A primary school teacher goes overboard with the discipline of a child, yes she did wrong. Ordinarily, her sack should be enough of a disciplinary measure while the school puts more efforts into the reorientation of its staff. But trust Nigerians to always get emotional and overly animated. Police has entered. Government ministry has entered. Bloggers have now entered. We'll end up seeing dozens of articles related to this one issue on the front page for the next one week .

A citizen was assaulted, a minor at that, and your response is that the sacking of the assaulted who happened to be a teacher should be enough. If this kid had been assaulted by an unemployed person, would you have advised on that case that the person be let go since he has no job?

Reasoning the way some of you reason things leaves my skin crawling for days even weeks sometimes. 😩😩😩😩

Agugbadin:
OMG.Only those who studied early education should be employed to teach children.

People without anger management issues as well. Who in their right mind ever thinks to attack/slap a 3-year-old child? That is clearly bullying!

aremubabs:
➜The mother of the boy did not handle it well professionally. She should be sacked too. Something happened in the school, you didn't report to the school management, instead you took a recording of the incident and showed it to your pastor who was now the one that called the headmistress. Is that how it should be? There is a hierarchy in every workplace. What happens in the class that needs serious attending to should first get to the school management before getting to the public. Since the school management already had a policy against corporal punishment, why didn't she report the matter to the headmistress?

What is this one rambling about for Pete's sake!

GiftofGod77:
➜I am very sad for the Teacher and dear child. Teachers and Educators must always exercise restraint when engaging with learners. If a person is temperamental then he or she should not teach especially minors. It is easy to lose tempers but when one considers their age and weakness then adequate patience must be applied when teaching them. It is a sad event. I pray the child's ear has not been hurt by the battering....

The teacher is the culprit in this case and should be appropriately docked by the law so she serves as an example for others who have issues with managing their anger issues.

Image123:
➜Don't be an hypocrite. It's very certain 99% don't even think slapping or beating children is against any constitution. Even the people who want to put someone behind bars slap every day.

The law and its enforcement of it should not be based on the opinions of individuals. If 99% break the law, 99% should be punished for breaking the law. Pretty straightforward, right? 🙄🙄🙄

Nadingo:
The boy and his mom deserve a GoFundMe

Nonsense!

Sulele04:
➜You said she shouldn't have arrested the teacher though that it is too much.

Nonsense! A crime was committed by the teacher against the child.

emperor4love:
So many ppl failed the kid, so as a mother you hv to wait for video evidence of wat,wen u should hv fight her before sending the video to pastor nd ppl

Fight her for what? The teacher should be behind bars for assaulting the kids who is also a Nigerian citizen covered under anti-assault laws.

Ishilove:
➜In this interview with IMOLEAYO OYEDEYI, widowed mother of a three-year-old pupil assaulted by a female teacher at Christ-Miltos Primary School, Ikorodu, Lagos, Mrs Adenike Okunlaya, recounts how the incident played out and her daily struggles to fend for her son since her husband’s death three years ago.
Can you explain how the whole incident happened?
The incident happened on Monday (January 6, 2025). I am also a teacher in the school. I teach Nursery Two, while my son is in Nursery One. On that very day, I was in my class while my colleague, the teacher in question, was also in her class. Suddenly, I heard, ‘Write six; write six’. Later, another colleague brought her phone to show me the video. So, I sent it to my phone and forwarded it to one of my friends.

Why is it still considered OK for a teacher to lay hands on a student even with child abuse/assault considered a crime in the same country? 😩😩😩😩😩

greatermax77:
➜It seems you have been brainwashed with western Education, you don't know that African science exists?

African science that has in over 65 years not proven itself of any tangible worth to the existence of over 10s of millions of Africans, including Nigerians in Africa?😩😩😩

Jega2000:
I make roughly 500k-700k on average monthly but I am not really comfortable...

In Nigeria today, it puts you well within the poverty bracket particularly if you have dependents apart from yourself.

Auxtan:
➜How effective is pretending to be poor or uneducated help people bag true love. The world is crazy these days. Finding true love seems to be so difficult now.

Nonsense! 🙄🙄🙄🙄

First, try to carefully define this true love you refer to. So long as it reads no different from a dysfunctional relationship setup, you can pretty much find it anywhere. You only need to be open to being the one holding the short end of the stick sometimes.

RealityKings1:
➜ In all my posts there was never at any point I mentioned "religion or religious". So you are drawing inference.
➜That aside I will like to ask, how did you know there are over 5,000,000,000 ,000 people on earth just like you claimed?

Excuse you? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Do you actually think one has to explicitly say the word religion before one can be identified as pushing a religious agenda?😩😩😩😩😩

2. As of January 2025, the number of people on the planet is put at over 8 billion —8,000,000,000.

Obaaderemi2:
You always talk like someone without a brain. United Nations is now a Nigerian agency

Did The UN do an independent census of Nigerians? So, you never figure out at this point in time that many of the numbers we obtain from the UN and other organizations incorporate the erroneous figure fed them by your government which has not conducted a census since 2006? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

RealityKings1:
➜Cc .. is this possible? Looks like a scene in the matrix where Neo is summoned through the cellphone

Matrix was not this sloppy abeg! This is a very terrible video-clipping job.

Either that or NEPA take light while the man was standing there and by the time the light came back, the man don waka commot for there.🤣🤣🤣

mysticwarrior:
➜Shuo, see me see wahala o. I ask you about the police man and you dey explain film trick dey give me. Wetin dey happen today na kobo?

What policeman? 😩

I mean why choose to deceive yourself? One moment there is a shadow and the next the shadow is cut by about 6 inches on that back wall. And it did not occur to you in this video editing world that someone must have cut portions of the video?😩 😩 😩

mysticwarrior:
Chai kobo but you no be violent person na, why you wan slap me? Calm down abeg this na morning. So in other words you dey tell me say the police man dey lie?

This is 2025! I have every right to be pissed off by the fact that there still exist individuals in this day and age who would fall for the same film trick of the quality that was used as far back as the 60s/70s in that same Nigeria. Anyone who has ever seen any Nigerian movie from as far back as even the 80s would have immediately realized that this video for a hoax it is given that this is the same quality disappearing trick used back during those years in major productions in the country.

mysticwarrior:
➜After them go say African juju no dey work, oya kobojunkie come and explain how the mopol and CCTV camera suffered from "DELUSION" because na your favourite word be that.

To slap you dey hungry me! 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Did the man disappear, along with the shadow on the wall in the video? If you pay attention to the video, you realize that the video had been clipped to remove what may be at least 15 minutes -30 minutes worth of video(see the black marking indicating the height of shadow that had been taken out in the process) from it when it is claimed that the man disappeared. 😩😩😩😩😩