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Saturday 4 February 2017

DSS officials allegedly beat up teachers for flogging a student

Some teachers of the Federal Government Girls' College, F.G.G.C., Calabar were beaten yesterday by people they claim to be officials of the Department of State Service, DSS. The DSS stormed the school following a report that a teacher had beaten a senior student who happens to be the daughter of a DSS operative.
The teacher, Mr. Owai Owai, revealed that the senior student had taken some junior students to sweep her class, something Owai had warned them against doing, so he decided to punish the entire class for going against his instructions barring them from forcing junior students to sweep their classroom.
As he began to flog the students, one of them grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, prompting him to flog her some more. The girl reportedly ran outside the class and made a call to her DSS official mother. Soon after, a woman and a man walked into the class, took the cane from Owai and began to flog him with it. His colleagues who came to his rescue were also attacked.

Owai escaped when he could and watched from a safe distance as the woman made calls, not long after, he said three vans drove into the school carrying more DSS official, Vanguard reported.
He said; “They jumped out of the vans and started shouting ‘where is the teacher’. The woman, who did not know I had escaped, mistakenly pointed at another teacher, Mr. Ndarake, and they went after him.
“One of them brought out a rifle, pointed it at Ndarake, while another shouted ‘shoot him’. But the man with the rifle fired into the air, grabbed Ndarake and tried to force him into one of the vans. Ndarake resisted. He wrestled him to the ground and began using the butt of his rifle on his head and neck.”
It was reported that the set of DSS officials who arrived later shot sporadically into the air and that any teacher who tried to film the incident on their phone was attacked and their device seized.
Mr. Mbeson Emmanuel, the Fine Arts teacher said: “Over six of us were attacked for trying to take pictures of the incident and I had my phone and binoculars confiscated and another teacher, Mrs Anne Agba, had her phone and N80,000, which was in her handbag, confiscated. She was severely manhandled."

He also revealed that the security man, James Asuquo, who tried to stop the van from leaving was also hit on the head and neck with the butt of their rifle. Afterward, they shot the lock on the gate and drove out. Asuquo has now been taken to the hospital due to the injuries sustained from the attack.

Reacting to the claims, Mr. Fubara Duke, the State Director of DSS, told Vanguard that the incident was a case of mistaken identity. He said that some hoodlums went to the school on Wednesday to beat a teacher for flogging a student. When they did not see the teacher they left and returned the next day. Duke said that when the teachers saw the DSS operative they began beating her and tore her clothes because they thought she was one of the hoodlums.

With regard to the gunshot claim, Duke said, “There were no gunshots and my men only went there on the invitation of the school authorities and the teachers mistook my personnel for hoodlums.
“They went there to sort out an issue, where the DSS operative’s daughter was beaten by a teacher, leaving her body with lacerations, but she was mistaken for one of the hoodlums, who went there to beat up a teacher on Wednesday.”
Duke has asked the school administration to fish out the teachers who attacked the DSS lady so that they can face the punishment for their actions.

25 comments:

  1. Abuse of power.. no investigation as per what happened before taking d jungle justice. This nonsense can only happen in Buhari's administration...

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  2. Who are we to even believe now.
    What the teachers narrated was totally different from the account of the DSS.


    . ~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA

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  3. What did we put ourselves into. DSS officials are more like the president now. And to think that such would be waived off. What is even Dss business going to a school. Who will punish the Dss officials? My God

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  4. Whose side should we believe. The DSS isn't so uncouth to just badge into the school and start beating staff up. Something isn't adding up!

    Long live LIB

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  5. Its joblessness that is worrying them. Its all bubus fault

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  6. When dey no see any work do,why dem no go dey put mouth for smelly issues such as teacher floggin an obviously spoilt and mannerless brat.stupid people wit stupid oga. Dat duke shld just keep quiet ifhe doesn't kno Hw to investigate befor judging. Animal, armedrobber

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  7. Hia for this Nigeria anything can happen.... Lies on top of lies.....

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  8. DSS a failure... Since 1960..
    Thats their logo!

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  9. What concerns DSS with school and teachers. Is this the change APC promised us?

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  10. Who shld we believe the report of the teachers or the report of Mr duke?

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  11. Woyo...wonders shall never end. I am an alumni of this great school and trust me this drama could never happen in the days of mrs Eno Bassey. Mbok which teacher u wan slap? Mma okon, mr afuekwe, mr owoyemi, ms Nwachukwu..just to mention a few. A true fegocal girl could never disrespect her teacher. Please this girl must be expelled and her DSS connected mother punished.
    It is sad to read about this..

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    1. Why do you sound like my friend Eme Aikpo of 07 set

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  12. I graduated from that School, to be honest the Mr Owai in question is fond of beating students mercilessly and it's girls. His own is justice served but for other teachers especially our kind Mr Agba, they should sue.

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  13. This is gross irresponsibility....

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  14. and abuse of power on the part of the DSS.

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  15. Dss story na wash..D school version is more believable..

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  16. very good news
    -D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds

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  17. wat those DSS did wasn't fair at all

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  18. Dey wia no gunshots indeed. U people dat were spraying bullets like knock out. D gun shots actually woke me up from sleep.

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  19. DSS operatives don't just show up at anyplace because of hoodlums. The p patent of this child who is above the teachers should withdraw her daughter and home school her. She is raising the next generation of wild animals and creatures that we will call fellow Nigerians. She does not deserve to be among civil society. This is cruel treatment of teachers.

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  20. The DSS are a disgrace to Nigeria. The whole Calabar command that those officers belong to should be punished, especially the State Director who so obviously believes that his officers are above the law

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  21. so there is still another Merilyn Oga in the DSS, this country will never stop amusing me, what is the PTA doing, if the DSS now settle teacher student issue. I thought intimidating people with DSS was peculiar with PDP but APC is trying to prove me wrong and confirm their saying that the difference between PDP and APC is PMB.

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