The Principal of Government Science Secondary School, Nassarawa-Eggon, and three other officials have been suspended for one month for meting out corporal punishment to some students.
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According to Punchng, the state Commissioner of Education, Mr. Tijjani Ahmed, said the state government had banned corporal punishments in public schools across the 13 local government areas and 18 development areas of the state. .
Ahmed explained that the decision followed the beating of some students of GSS, Nassarawa-Eggon, the video of which had gone viral in the social media.
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He said, “We have constituted a committee to investigate the matter and report to the ministry in the next one week to enable the ministry to take appropriate action.
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Already, three staff members of the school including the Principal have been given a one-month suspension over their involvement in the corporal punishment pending the report of the committee set up by the ministry.” .
He explained that the ministry had also written to all public schools informing their managements of the ban on corporal punishment.
