A terrible accident happened at the Nigerian
Navy Secondary School, Onikoko, Adigbe area
of Abeokuta,
the Ogun State capital in the early hours of
October 30, 2013, Wednesday, when six naval
rating officers pounced on one of the civilian
teachers in the school
and beat him to stupor over a minor
argument between them.
The victim, Rasheed Ibrahim (pictured), could
have been killed by the naval officers without
the quick intervention of the Commandant.
Ibrahim, a Senior Food and Nutrition teacher
in the school since 1998, was ordered rushed
by the Commandant first to the School
sickbay for first aid treatment from where he
was transferred to the FMC, Abeokuta.
According to P.M. News, the trouble started
following an argument between the victim
and one of the rating officers identified as
Aliyu. This later snowballed into some
commotion in the school
premises.
"I saw them arguing, the argument dragged
for a short time, I felt that it was a minor
argument, so I did not intervene," an
eyewitness told the reporters.
"It happened around 7.15 a.m. At that time I
saw Aliyu trying to drag Mr. Ibrahim out of
his car and he succeeded. Another officer,
Oyerinde, later instructed Aliyu to beat him
up. That was how the whole issue started. In
the process, another Senior Officer,
Shodiya, came out from his vehicle and
joined them, while other rating officers
pounced on him to the extent that they used
their thick belts on him until it
got tore into pieces. All my attempts and that
of others to pacify them were rebuffed.
"This was not the first time it will happen,
this is the sixth time in two years that
civilians working in the
School here have been brutalised and nothing
has been done", the eyewitness explained.
When P.M. News tried to contact the
Commandant of the School, Commodore M A
Olatunji, on the phone
to comment on the incident, he neither
confirmed nor denied it, but declined to give
further comments, saying he need to get
clearance from the authority
before he could make a statement.
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