A man, Oyedele Nutai Joseph, and his wife Elizabeth Joseph, were on Tuesday arrested by the police in Ogun State for unlawfully invading Toyon High School, Ere Village in Ado Odo, Ado Odo-Ota local government area of Ogun State, with thugs to attack a teacher, Abel Thomas.
The “offence” of the teacher was that he beat their son, Joshua Joseph, an SS3 student of the school.
The suspects were arrested following a distress call received by the policemen at Ado Odo divisional headquarters, from the school, that parents of one of their students were in the school with thugs and had beaten and injured one of the teachers.
Upon the distress call, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Ado Odo, SP Arowojeun Michael, quickly led his men to the school where the couple were arrested while their other accomplices escaped.
Preliminary investigation, according to the spokesman of the Ogun State Police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, revealed that the teacher, Abel Thomas, moderately corrected a SS3 student of the school by name Joshua Joseph who then went home to inform his parents that he was beaten by the teacher.
He said having heard from their son, the parents who felt that the teacher had no right to beat their son for any reason mobilised some thugs and stormed the school.
On getting to the school, the police said, they descended heavily on the teacher, beat and injured him.
They also damaged the back screen of a Toyota Corolla with registration number LSD 395 FV belonging to another teacher of the school, Jolayemi Sunday.
The injured teacher was taken to hospital for medical treatment.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered that the escaped thugs who accompanied the couple to attack the school should be hunted for and brought to justice.
He also directed that the arrested couple should be charged to court without delay.
