Anambra Police Probe Another Schoolboy’s Death

THE Anambra State Police Command, yesterday, said it was launching an investigation into the death of another schoolboy at St. Valerian Catholic School in Onitsha, following alleged beating by a female teacher.

Izuchukwu David Onwualu, an 11- year- old JSS 1 student allegedly died after he was manhandled by his Basic Science teacher.

The Commissioner of Police, Echeng Echeng, who spoke through the Police Public Relations Officer ( PPRO), Ikenga Tochukwu, assured that the command would investigate the matter thoroughly.

He said: “We have not got official report on that yet. But somebody had called me telling me about the matter. Now that you have reminded me, we shall look into the matter and I will get back to soonest.”

According to a source, the school, in an attempt to cover up the matter, gave the boy’s father N200, 000 as compensation, after which he hurriedly buried the boy.

The deceased father, Dubem Onwualu Christopher, who said he took the boy to school in the morning of the fateful day, expressed surprise that he was writhing in pain in the evening.

He added that he was still away from home when he was called, and informed that the boy had severe health challenges, and in - vestigation later revealed that he was manhandled by a female teacher.

“The students claimed that the teacher repeatedly hit Izuchukwu’s head with a plastic bottle over his failure to do his assignment. She was always flogging him when he misbehaved. If he wrote slowly, she flogged him; if he played roughly, she flogged him.

“When she was flogging him, she did not know that Izuchukwu would hit his head on the wall. As she kept flogging him to make sure that he cried, he broke free and hit his head on the wall. He was thereafter rushed to the school clinic, but the attendant was nowhere to be found. Then one student carried him home on his back, ” the students narrated.