Female Student Loses Eye After Teacher’s Severe Punishment in Kaduna

Raliya Suleiman, a Junior Secondary School (JSS, a female student of Government Secondary School, Kachai, in Kaduna State has lost her right eye after a teacher hit the eye with his cane, Daily Trust reports.

The incident happened on 23rd February, 2017.

According to information gathered, Raliya was allegedly flogged by a teacher, Moses Aura, in the school because she came to school late on 23th February, 2017. The cane hit her right eye and has resulted in permanent eye damage.

The Tafidan Kachai and Raliya’s uncle, Sani Abubakar, who confirmed the incident, said,

”Raliya was late for school that faithful day, 23rd February, 2017 and the teacher, Moses Aura asked her and many others to kneel down and wait for him. When he came back, he started beating her and the cane hit her right eye. She was rushed to the National Eye Center, Kaduna, unfortunately, they said the water in the eye had drained out and there was nothing they could do to salvage the eye.”

The Kaduna Area Unit of the Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN) has however, taken up Raliya’s case to seek for justice.

Sabi’u Shitu, the President of the association added that similar act of injustice was perpetrated again one of its members, Late Rahmatu Abdullahi of Model Primary School, Kachia on 23rd July, 2013, by one Sunday Agite.

He noted that Rahmatu died as a result of the unbearable beating she was made to bear and decried the inhumane treatment and persecutions of its members by the tyrannical and unscrupulous teachers under the guise of discipline.

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