DSS Invades FGGC Calabar, Beats up 6 Teachers
They alleged that the armed security officials stormed the school premises at about 10am on the invitation of a female DSS official who had come to beat up a teacher for flogging her daughter.
One of the teachers , Mr . Owai Owai, said he was flogged in front of his pupils by the DSS woman and her husband.
Other teachers , who claimed to have been beaten up when the school later became flooded with DSS officials , identified themselves simply as Ndarake , Inyang , Udoh , Agba , Njor and the college ’ s Chief Security Officer, John Ikpeme.
A security official , identified as James, said the DSS officials who stormed the school in three vehicles , shot repeatedly into the air before they forcefully gained entrance.
However, the state Director of DSS , Mr . Fubara Duke , said the matter was a case of mistaken identity.
The school gate had bullet holes , while some spent shells were seen on the floor.
Owai, who teaches Civic Education in the senior class , said trouble started when he flogged some pupils for failing to sweep their classroom.
He said , “ I was about to teach when I noticed some junior pupils sweeping the classroom of the senior pupils. I learnt that the senior pupils had imposed it on them . It was a wrong precedent because all the pupils had been told to sweep their respective classes.
“ I punished the senior pupils who ordered the junior ones to sweep. I gave each of them two strokes of the cane on their palm and one of them challenged me for flogging her . Before I knew what was happening , she telephoned her mother , whom I later learnt was a DSS official.
The mother came to the school with her husband and they started beating me.
“ They used my own cane to flog me in the presence of the pupils. My fellow teachers came in to stop them , but they were rebuffed. Later , the DSS woman called her colleagues for reinforcement and that was how the school became flooded with DSS officials . They started beating teachers who ran into them . ”
Another teacher , Amos Princewill, said the DSS officials took away two mobile phones, a binocular and N 80, 000 belonging to his colleagues who were molested.
But DSS Director, Duke , said , “ It was not true that they used guns. What happened was that there was a mistaken identity somewhere. Our people responded to a call from them and on getting there , a group of hoodlums that had earlier gone there took to their heels.
“ Meanwhile, a parent had gone to the school to complain that her daughter was beaten up by a teacher . She ( the parent) was mistaken to be among the hoodlums and some teachers from the school pounced on her. They even attacked a DSS official . I have complained to the school authorities to take administrative action against what they did to a member of my staff. ”
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