Couple hire thugs to attack teacher for disciplining student

A couple, Oyedele Joseph and Elizabeth Joseph have been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly sponsoring thugs to attack teacher who corrected their child over misconduct

Penpushing reports that, Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi who confirmed this development said the couple unlawfully invaded Toyon High School Ere village in Ado Odo area of Ado- Odo/ Ota local government, with thugs to attack the teacher identified as Abel Thomas

The parents alongside the thugs attacked the teacher for having the effrontery to beat their son Joshua Joseph an SS3 student of the school, who was established by the school authorities of misbehaviour

‘A man, Oyedele Nutai Joseph and his wife Elizabeth Joseph were on the 18th of January 2022, arrested by men of Ogun state police command for unlawfully invading Toyon High school Ere village in Ado odo area of Ado odo ota local government, with thugs to attack a teacher Abel Thomas for having the effrontery to beat their son Joshua Joseph an SS3 student of the school’, Oyeyemi said

. Penpushing further reports that, the command said the suspects were arrested following a distress call received by the policemen at Ado Odo Divisional Headquarters, from the school, that parents of one of their students are in the school with thugs and have beaten and injured one of the teachers.

‘Upon the distress call, the DPO Ado Odo, SP Arowojeun Michael, quickly led his men to the school where the couple were arrested while their other accomplices escaped. Preliminary investigation revealed that the teacher Abel Thomas, moderately corrected a SS3 student of the school by name Joshua Joseph who then went home to inform his parents that he was beaten by the teacher’.

The police spokesman added that, having heard from their son, the parents who felt that the teacher has no right to beat their son for any reason mobilized some thugs and stormed the school.

‘On getting to the school, they descended heavily on the teacher, beat and injured him. They also damaged the back screen of a Toyota Corolla with registration number LSD 395 FV belonging to another teacher of the school Jolayemi Sunday. The injured teacher had been taken to hospital for medical treatment’, Oyeyemi added.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police Lanre Bankole has ordered that the escaped thugs who accompanied the couple to attack the school should be hunted for and brought to justice, and also directed that the arrested couple should be charged to court without delay.

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