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A 30-year-old teacher at Landmark School Mgbakwu in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Faith Nwonye has been arrested for allegedly beating an 8-year-old pupil into a coma.

The state commissioner for Education, Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, who disclosed this while briefing journalists in her office on Monday, May 20, 2024, said that the school has been permanently shut down.

Chuma-Udeh said she had summoned the school’s proprietor and Nwonye to explain the incident that led to the brutal beating of the primary pupil.

“We received this unfortunate incident from an illegal school in Mgbakwu that a child was beaten to a coma over the weekend. On behalf of the State Government, we invited the proprietress of the illegal school as well as the teacher who purportedly beat the child,” she said.

"We’ve handed the matter to the police for further investigations, as we await Mr Governor’s directives. Meanwhile, the school is closed down indefinitely because it’s not supposed to exist in the first instance. Any parent who is enrolling his/her child in an illegal school is doing so at his/her own peril.

“To the proprietors of private schools, anyone running an unapproved school in Anambra is a criminal. It’s a criminal offence to run an illegal school in the state.

“Whether the school is legal or not, it’s criminal to beat a child. According to the doctor, the chances of survival of the child is 20%."

The commissioner added that the teacher would be brought to book.

“As soon as the police are done, the teacher will face other institutions against child rights. She’s going to have the full wrath of the law brought upon her over her actions,” she said.

“Anambra state abhors violence to children, women, and any other person. It’s not part of this administration and Mr. Governor is against such.”

BewareOf419:
I Love Oyinbo People, Beat Pupil And Go To Life Imprisonment Straight

enien:
Even the doctors are in shock

being:
And this is total nonsense...
Spare the rod and u will spoil the child..
In everything there has to be a balance and u cannot throw away the baby away with the dirty bathwater.
Of course, when u are beating a child, u are not beating to kill and so the beating must be measured and not done in anger.. but beating is important and should not be discarded.

UselessBuharist:
The word “beat” is provocative on its own, beating does a lot of harm to a child mentally and physically.

You caution a child.

How will you feel if you are called to come to the hospital that your child has been admitted after being beaten by a teacher. I will go physical with the teacher man or woman

UselessBuharist:
The word “beat” is provocative on its own, beating does a lot of harm to a child mentally and physically.

You caution a child.

How will you feel if you are called to come to the hospital that your child has been admitted after being beaten by a teacher. I will go physical with the teacher man or woman

Afamsi:
You cannot train a child in the school whose parent are not interested in training at home... Instead of killing someone's child in the name of discipline, report the child to the school authorities for posible expulsion after every other disciplinary measure fails

being:
There is nothing provocative about beat.. were u not beaten when u were small or do u belong to Gen alpha?
Beat... but u are not beating to kill... but u shoild beat! U go and try to caution a 1 yr old not to go near hot water and let's see how that works.
Infact it's when u beat the 1 yr old that ur caution next time will be taken seriously cos he knows what u can do.to him next