A crisis broke out at Aces Nursery Primary and Secondary School in Abuja when a father, Muhammed Jimeta assaulted a teacher, Sekinat Adedeji for allegedly beating his daughter, Karima Jimeta.
The incident occurred on Tuesday, May 28, 2024.
Recounting her ordeal, the teacher, Sekinat Adedeji, said she was holding her three-month-old baby when her pupil’s father, Jimeta, assaulted her.
According to her, she teaches the female pupil, Karima Jimeta, in basic three.
She said, “It happened around 12:30 pm on the 29th of May, 2024 when I used a ruler on her leg when she and others were disturbing and were asked to kneel.
“She gave me ‘wanka’, that was why I beat her on the leg with a small ruler.”
Pronounced as “uwarka” in Hausa, literally meaning ‘Your Mother’, it is an abusive word used by stretching out one’s five fingers toward a person.
Adedeji continued, “The father slapped me four times close to 4 pm because school closes at 3 pm. His daughter reported what happened at 12.30 pm to him at the close of school when he came to pick her up.
“The child is not serious with her studies and insults teachers that come to the class”
A parent who witnessed the incident, Magdalene Ukuedojor, alleged that the female pupil has a habit of insulting everyone, stressing that the father had no justification to lay hands on a nursing mother and teacher of his child.
“The teacher has a three-month-old baby. She carries her baby in a carrier. This man beat her up while she was carrying this baby in front of little children.
“Teachers were even begging, they knelt begging but he still charged at her. She had to run and leave the class.
‘It was when I came to pick up my son that I saw her outside, her face was already swollen.
‘She wee-weed on herself due to shock.
‘Because she was trying to protect herself and you are giving her blows.
“And other teachers because they don’t want to talk and lose their jobs, everybody was angry that this girl is very insulting. She does this all the time. Parents are angry. He should have reported it to the school authorities not to beat the teacher up.”
When contacted, Jimeta said the teacher had been assaulting his child for weeks.
“This woman has been beating that child for such a long time. The last time she beat her, I talked to the school management and they calmed me down. But she was shouting at me and I didn’t talk to her.
“After two days, she beat the child and sent her to come home and tell us that she’s beaten her and dared us to do what we want to do.
“If you see the marks and the blood on her legs. She made me crazy.”
The school owner, Aminu Kani did not respond to inquiries by The PUNCH when contacted.