Principal inflicts injury on son over WAEC approval letter

THE principal of a local government secondary school, Oshokoshoko in Lokoja Local Government Area of  Kogi State, Mr Christopher Ogbeun, has inflicted a serious burns on his son, Stephen, for destroying a West African Examination Council approval letter.

He used an electric iron which he was using to press his clothes  to burn his son.

Stephen, a 10-year old, is under medical watch at the State Specialist Hospital Lokoja, where he is critically lying ill on bed.

Ogbeun and his wife had taken Stephen and his sister to his senior sister for care when things became worse due to economic challenges.

They were recently brought back home when things improved slightly.

 When the Nigerian Tribune queried Ogbeun on why he did it, he could not state any reason behind the act.

He said that he discovered that the boy had destroyed a letter of approval from the West African Examination Council (WAEC) which authorised his school to be a centre for WAEC examinations, adding that his refusal to admit that he did it, “made me to threaten him with the iron which on a second thought,  I pressed it on him”

According to the  remorseful father, “when I asked him to tell me the truth, he refused,  then, I used the iron on him.”

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Musa Katsina, while parading Ogbeun,  said if not for the intervention of the Special Ambush Squad, he would have killed the son.

He said that the squad caught the suspect  when he tied up the boy’s hands and closed his mouth using the electric iron on him.

Katsina disclosed  that Ogbeun would be charged to court for unlawful detention and attempted murder.

However at the State Specialists Hospital where the Stephen Ogbun was receiving treatment,the family members were seen in pensive mood and praying for his recovery.

Attempt to speak with the Hospital authority to ascertain the degree of the burn  and chances of survival proved abortive as none was ready to speak.