Kaduna State Police Command on Saturday arrested two suspects who allegedly flogged a student to death over absenteeism in Al-Azhar Academy, a private secondary school in Zaria,? Kaduna.
The acting Police Public Relations Officer PPRO Kaduna, ASP Mansur Hassan, while confirming the incident said that the commissioner of police in Kaduna has ordered thorough investigation in to the matter, adding that, more would be arrested in connection with the death of the student.
In a separate interview with newsmen, an uncle to the deceased student, Malam Isa Saidu of Kofar Kuyanbana area, Zaria, said his nephew Marwanu Nuhu-Sambo died on Oct. 20 at Al-Azhar Academy, a private secondary school in Zaria.
He added that before his death, late Nuhu-Sambo was a JSS 3 (Basic 9) student of the school.
According to Saidu, a friend to the father of the deceased took him back to the school and handed him over to the principal of the school.
He added that the principal flogged him in his presence thereafter the vice principal of the school took him to the assembly ground where the deceased was flogged again in the presence of other students.
โThe late student was again taken to the principalโs office and flogged again, where he attempted to runaway but was prevented from running away by the school prefects.
โHe was still beaten to the extent that he lost some of his teeth and then went into a coma and subsequently lost his life,โ Saidu said.
Reacting, Rukayya Sambo, a sister to the deceased, told newsmen that her late brother was asked to repeat his class after promotional examination, which he declined and stopped going to the school.
โHe was then taken to the school by one of his uncles and handed over to the school principal, who vowed to punish him for absconding.
โIt was after the uncle left the school that the teachers engaged late Marwanu in a serious beating to the extent that they broke his tooth and later killed him,โ she said.
Sambo further said that her brotherโs corpse was abandoned near the school toilet till the school closed, after which the school management rushed him to a nearby hospital only to be told that he had died
