Mother, daughter, one other allegedly flogged teacher to death in Anambra

FOR allegedly flogging a teacher, simply identified as Miss Odinliyi Rita, to death, a mother, Mrs Okafor, her daughter, Chinaza Okafor and another person yet to be identified, have been arrested by the Police in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra State.

The deceased, until her death, was an Igbo teacher and class mistress at Starlight secondary school Ogidi.

Nigerian Tribune reportedly gathered that trouble started on Friday morning when the teacher came to school and found out that her class was not swept and she demanded from the students in the class why the class was not swept.

It was then that they told her that the student, Chinaza Okafor, who was supposed to sweep the class before going home the previous day after dismissal as they used to do, did not sweep it and when queried by the teacher, she was said to have proved stubborn in her response which angered the teacher and made her flogged her.

It was learnt that while she was being flogged she ran out of the class and scaled the school fence as the gate was locked and made straight to their house where she reported to her mother that she was beaten black and blue by her teacher for not sweeping the classroom.

Feeling furious the mother was said to have armed herself with sticks and went to the school with her daughter and one other person, to avenge the flogging.

On arriving the school, she could not see the teacher as she was said to have gone out to attend a meeting of private schools which made her to swore she (teacher) would have been thought the lesson of her life.

Efforts made by the co-teachers to calm down the woman and allow the school authority to handle the case by itself proved abortive as she swore to avenge.

However after sometime, as the teacher was nowhere to be seen, the mother, daughter and the person that accompanied them to the school left the school premises and on coming out of the gate they met the teacher who then was returning from the meeting she has gone.

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Immediately the daughter pointed at her, the woman pounced on the teacher like a wounded lion, flogging and beating her up with the help of her daughter and the other unidentified person and as the attack became unbearable the teacher slumped and died at the spot.

As she slumped the trio fled the scene and the teacher was rushed to Iyi-Enu Mission hospital where she was confirmed dead.

Confirming the incident, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, in charge of the Area, Mr Mark Ijarafu said, “we have arrested the mother, daughter and one other person”

“The corpse of the teacher has been deposited at Iyi-Enu mortuary while investigation is ongoing,” the DPO said.