Five persons were arraigned on Thursday before a Magistrate Court sitting in Ago-Iwoye, in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State, for allegedly assaulting a secondary school teacher, Mr. Akeem Soyingbe, of Mamu Community Comprehensive High School, Ago-Iwoye.
The defendants, appearing before Magistrate Mrs. O. F. Adeduntan, pleaded not guilty to the six-count charge leveled against them.
They are Sunday Matthew (19), Salisu Sulaiman (32), Ojenugba Philips (34), Sunday Abu (45), and Joel Sunday (20)
The prosecutor, Sgt. Abolarinwa Wasiu, informed the court that the defendants committed the offence on January 29 at Mamu Community Comprehensive High School, Ago-Iwoye.
He told the court that the defendants conspired among themselves to assault the teacher on the grounds that he deliberately failed an SS1 student, Sunday Matthew, causing him to repeat the class.
“The defendants entered the school premises on motorcycles and assaulted Mr. Akeem Soyingbe, a teacher, claiming he was responsible for Matthew’s poor academic performance and failure,” he said.
“The act displayed by the defendants has created fear and anxiety among students, resulting in poor school attendance today.”
Magistrate Adeduntan, however, granted the defendants bail in the sum of N500,000 each, with two sureties in like sum.
She ordered that the sureties must provide evidence of two years’ tax payment to the Ogun State Government.
The case was thereafter adjourned until February 27 for hearing.