Lagos School Shut Down Over Flogging Of Two-Year-Old Pupil

A Lagos school, Unic Vilos Montessori has been shut down by the Lagos State Ministry of Education after a toddler received 24 strokes of the cane.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Folashade Adefisayo, while speaking to Channels stated that the ministry ordered the closure of the school after confirming the story.

According to her, the decision was taken after it was discovered that the school, which is located within an elementary school operates without approval.

Naija News learned that the victim’s mother, Faustina Ohamadike came online with her daughter’s story after the school proprietress threatened her for confronting the teacher who inflicted her daughter.

The victim’s family reportedly lives opposite the school, in which the proprietress and the teacher who allegedly gave 24 strokes of the cane lives in too.

Following the ordeal, Folashade confirmed that a combined team of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, the Domestic Violence and Response Unit, and the Ministry of Youths and Social Development, arrested the teacher and proprietress on Monday.

While the proprietress was released earlier in the week, the teacher is still in detention.

The recent development further adds to the growing cases of caregivers’ maltreatment of school children, a development that has raised concerns about the criteria for teachers who take care of toddlers.