A teacher simply identified as Mr David has evaded arrest after beating a 16-year-old SS3 female student of Government Girls Science Secondary School (GGSSS), Kuje, Abuja, Christabel Mimi Henry, to a state of coma.
The victim’s mother, Stella Henry, told NewsSpecng in an interview yesterday that Mimi who was hospitalised after the teacher hit her with an iron rod is set to undergo a scan to determine the severity of the injury.
It was learnt that Mimi who was on Friday evening beaten into a state of coma by the teacher and was rushed to the General Hospital in Kuje has regained consciousness but is set to undergo a scan to ascertain the level of injury to her head.
NewsSpecng gathered that the teacher, who is said to be notorious for abusing his power to punish by manipulating and disparaging students, has been evading arrest with the aid of the school principal, Mrs Sabina Agbuedu.
When our Correspondent contacted the principal on phone to find out why she had been shielding Mr David from arrest, Mrs Agbuedu declined comment on the matter and simply asked: “Who gave you my number?”
When pressed further to speak on the incident, Mrs Agbuedu quickly cut the call.
Narrating what transpired between Mimi and the teacher, one of the students who did not want her name in print said, “It was at about 10pm and the students were having their night prep when the teacher came into the class and started flogging the students for noise-making.
“The teacher insisted on beating all the students in the class on account of an anonymous student who made the noise.
“Mimi had requested the teacher to fish out the noisemaker for punishment instead of punishing the entire class, but the angry teacher slapped her severally before picking a rod and beat her into a state of unconsciousness”.
