A Junior Secondary School (JSS) student, Kelvin Ogheneogaga, of Ekiugbo Grammar School, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State is reported to have died after a teacher in the school flogged him.
The death of the student sparked off wild protest as the students destroyed the principal’s office and confronted the team of policemen invited to the school by the authority.
A source, who preferred anonymity, said the students informed the teacher that the deceased was not feeling well on account of a leg injury. But the teacher turned a deaf ear to their plea as he beat the victim more and more.
He said: “We were begging the teacher not to flog him because Kelvin was not too fine but the teacher refused. Kelvin had an injury in his leg before he was flogged; we do not know if the flogging was what led to his death.”
The arrival of police did not calm the situation as the students vented their anger by pelting them with stones and other dangerous weapons.
Efforts to reach the Delta State police boss Hafiz Inuwa proved abortive.
But s senior police officer attached to Ughelli Area Command said, “There was protest by students of Ekiugbo Grammar School, Ekiugbo, in Ughelli over the death of one Kelvin Ogheneogaga, who was said to have been flogged to death by a teacher.
”The teacher had on February 26, 2020 flogged the student for misconduct, after which it was reported that the student on getting home developed complications and was rushed to Ughelli Central Hospital by his family where he died.
“When the news of his death got to the school, it led to a protest by the students who destroyed the school’s vehicles belonging to the principal and teachers.”
