Miss Chidimma Ukachukwu, a 12-year-old, JSS 1 student of a secondary school in Awka (names withheld) has died after she was allegedly flogged by her teacher for failing to do her home work.

A reliable source in the school told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Awka, the Anambra state capital, that the girl died on Thursday last week after the incident.

The source explained that the girl fainted after being flogged severally by a female teacher and was subsequently rushed to an undisclosed hospital, where she died.

The source also said the Anambra Commissioner for Education, Mrs Uju Okeke, then ordered the closure of the school as a result of the incident.

Our correspondent, who visited the girl’s family home, soon after she was buried yesterday in Awka, reports that the family was in grief following the death of their daughter.

The girl’s father, Mr Siemon Ukachukwu, confirmed the death of his daughter and said it was a sad development, but was an act of God.

But when Okeke was contacted she denied ordering the closure of the school and said the school was on mid-term break.

NAN investigation, however, revealed that schools in Anambra were not on mid-term break.

This fact was corroborated by an official of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) in Akwa South local government of Anambra.

The chairperson of the union in the local government, Miss Buife Ndigwe, said primary and secondary schools in the state would go on mid-term break next week.

Also contacted for comments, the Public Relations Officer of the state Police command, Mr Ralph Uzoigwe, said the matter had not been reported to the police, but promised that it would be investigated.

adeyemiolatayo1:
I don't understand why humans would always want to find out some foolish reasons to question the wisdom of the one who created all things ......and expect to achieve a good result. God has said it several times categorically in the Bible and even in the Quran and we call ourselves Christians and Muslims ?..
..even all science and moral philosophers confirmed it.
A child is to be trained to understand the system of the society and be able to live and fit well into it. There is a judicial system in the society , this system flogs both emotionally and physically .let us stand for the truth.
There are schools in lekki , Lagos like standards bearers school, lekki , and many others they do not have any disciplinary policy at all they are majorly after the money they would collect from the parents .They allow the children to do any thing they want ,and the children are asked secretly by the management if they like their teacher or not .They have wickedly fired a lot of teachers simply because of this.

adeyemiolatayo1:
I don't understand why humans would always want to find out some foolish reasons to question the wisdom of the one who created all things ......and expect to achieve a good result. God has said it several times categorically in the Bible and even in the Quran and we call ourselves Christians and Muslims ?..
..even all science and moral philosophers confirmed it.
A child is to be trained to understand the system of the society and be able to live and fit well into it. There is a judicial system in the society , this system flogs both emotionally and physically .let us stand for the truth.
There are schools in lekki and many others they do not have any disciplinary policy at all they are majorly after the money they would collect from the parents .They allow the children to do any thing they want ,and the children are asked secretly by the management if they like their teacher or not .They have wickedly fired a lot of teachers simply because of this.

DrummaBoy:
cane
A friend told me how his mum beat him to top his class
He owes his 2-1 to dat incidence
there's a rod of correction

itsik:
@poster

it is possible to train a child without the cane. i agree  and am going to do dat to my own kids when i have them. but wont forget our own days, where we were flogged for every mistake you make.
we ought to remember this, that if you keep flogging a child to correct him and make him respect you. that child will grow up with that fear of the cane.then when he grows that u cant beat or flog him or her anylonger, the respect will not be there cos u have tought him how to fear the cane other than respecting u.
in essence, if a child makes mistakes, dont beat him always. learn to talk to him or her in that way they learn and love you too, but if u always beat them up they learn to fear you wiht out learning wat actually u want them to know about their wrong. wen they grow and the fear is no more , i bet u, u can control him or her. cos u instilled fear not discipline and correction.


thats my own opinion

Woke4all:
I totally agree with the floging method.

I remember back then in my family every child, in the house have his/her size of cane which only my mum use as the action woman.

Even in school it's everyday requirement for us to grow.

Some are saying it has Psychological effect. Of which is not true, If not for those cane and the iron like Goldie said, Hmmmm na Agbero some of us for be .

My mum do the beating while my dad did the advising back then which made me who i am today.

So to me Beating/floging and advicing goes together to make a child become a better person.