Students arrested for assaulting their teacher

A gang of senior secondary school pupils have beaten a teacher for stopping one of them from cheating during an examination in their school in Ogun State, Nigeria, according to reports.

“The teacher, while invigilating the unified examination for the SS 1 Art class students, caught a pupil cheating and seized his paper,” reports said.

Dissatisfied with the teacher’s action, the students after the school hours accosted the teacher and beat him up at the school’s gate.

Policemen arrived at the scene and arrested about 10 of them and they had been arraigned in court for assault.

“There is no going back on that. No student must raise his hands against the teacher, whether Ogun Teach teachers or permanent teachers, a teacher is a teacher,” the state Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools, Felix Agbesanwa said.