By Jimitota Onoyume
The Vice Principal of Erhavwe Secondary School in Ekrerahavwe, Agbarho Kingdom, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr. Lucky Otuaga, the Maths teacher of the school, Mr. Charles Ovwigho and the Chairman Education Committee of Ekrerahavwe, who is also a staff of the school, yesterday, narrated their ordeal in the hands of thugs allegedly brought by a female student, Miss Deborah Kazeem, to attack the Maths teacher on May 14.
The Vice Principal, Mr. Otuaga and some of the staff of the school, who spoke to Vanguard said they suffered injuries during the attack. The Maths teacher, Ovwigho said he even had his reading glasses smashed during the incident.
They said though the community, the Nigerian Union of Teachers and the Ministry of Education, Delta State had waded into the matter, but they were not in a hurry to forget the humiliating experience in the hands of the thugs allegedly brought in by the female student.
The principal of the school, Patience Ekakitie also decried the incident, adding that though the matter was before a magistrate’s court in Agbarho, efforts were on to withdraw it for amicable resolution of the issue.Vanguard gathered that the female student has been placed on indefinite suspension.
