Odd News: 12-year-old Girl Flogged To Death By Teacher

Miss Chidimma Ukachukwu, a 12-year-old, JSS 1
student of a secondary school in Awka (name
withheld) has died after she was allegedly flogged
by her teacher for failing to do her home work.
A reliable source in the school told the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Tuesday that
the girl died on Thursday last week after the
incident.
The source explained that the girl fainted after
being flogged severally by a female teacher and
was subsequently rushed to an undisclosed
hospital, where she died.
The source also told the NAN that the Anambra
Commissioner for Education, Mrs Uju Okeke, then
ordered the closure of the school as a result of the
incident. A NAN correspondent, who visited the
girls family home, soon after she was buried on
Tuesday in Awka, reports that the family was in
grief following the death of their daughter.
The girl's father, Mr Siemon Ukachukwu, confirmed
the death of his daughter to NAN and said that it
was a sad development, but was an act of God. But
when Okeke was contacted she denied ordering
the closure of the school and said that the school
was on mid term break.
NAN investigation, however, revealed that schools
in Anambra were not on mid term break.
This fact was collaborated by an official of the
Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) in Akwa South
Local Government of Anambra. The Chairperson of
the union in the local government, Miss Buife
Ndigwe, told NAN that primary and secondary
schools in the state would go on mid term break
next week.
Also contacted for comments, the Public Relations
Officer of the state Police command, Mr Ralph
Uzoigwe, said that the matter had not been
reported to the police, but promised that it would
be investigated.