NSCDC arrests student for allegedly promoting self to next class

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps
(NSCDC) in Omu-Aran, Kwara, on Tuesday arrested
a 15-year-old student of Ofe-Aran Commercial
College, Omu-Aran, for allegedly promoting
himself to the next class. Mr Samuel Ogungbe, the corps’ Intelligence
Officer, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Omu-Aran that the student was arrested when he
refused to repeat his class after failing his
examination. Ogungbe said the school’s authorities had
instructed the student to leave the school, a
directive he ignored. He told NAN that an official of the school reported
the matter to the corps when efforts to make him
see reason why he should repeat the class failed. “The student was said to be violent and the
authorities immediately called in the corps and
the student was arrested. “Efforts by his parents to compel him to repeat
the class also failed. “When he was asked to leave the school, he went
back to the class in anger and broke 10 window
louvre blades in the school,” he said. Ogungbe added that the student might serve a
community sentence to serve as a deterrent to
others. NAN gathered that the student, who failed the just
concluded JSS3 examination, insisted on
remaining in SS1. (NAN)