Nassarawa State Government Suspends Teachers Caught On Camera Flogging Students

The Nassarawa state government has placed a one-month suspension on three teachers of the Government Science Secondary School Nasarawa-Eggon caught on camera seriously flogging their students for failing to resume on the date of resumption.

The state commissioner of Education, Ahmed Tijani, announced the suspension of the teachers when he spoke to newsmen in the state yesterday January 18th. He also announced the ban of corporal punishment in all public schools in the state.

“We have constituted a committee to investigate their matter and report back to the ministry in the next one week, to enable the ministry to take appropriate action” he said

He added that the ministry had also written to all public schools informing the managements of the various schools on the ban on corporal punishment.