AFSS Flogging: Teachers, Parents Hold Peace Meeting …Resolve Issues over Severe Punishment of Students

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Parents, staff, and the Commandant of Air Force Secondary School (AFSS), Ikeja, have held a peace meeting to resolve issues raised by severe corporal punishment that sent two students to hospital last week.

Held between 2 pm and 4:30 pm on Wednesday, the parties apportioned blame as they debated how to discipline students.

Authorities at AFSS attracted public attention and sparked debates on Social Media platforms, after NewsmakersNG broke the news of senior secondary school students who were flogged up to 30 strokes each by soldiers, including female students who were whipped on their buttocks on the orders of the school commandant.

Two of the students, including one that was reportedly asthmatic, landed in the hospital.

The sitting recommended mild and humane punishments for students, as well as training and adequate preparation for teachers.

NewsmakersNG also received calls from top officers and members of the public who described the school commandant, Group Captain Babatunde Oguntunde, as a good officer who had meritoriously administered other Air Force schools before AFSS.

They blamed the soldiers who carried out his orders for being overzealous.