{"id":70644,"date":"2018-12-17T19:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T18:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70644"},"modified":"2018-12-17T19:33:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T18:33:37","slug":"lunatic-takes-over-ekiti-school-attacks-teachers-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70644","title":{"rendered":"Lunatic takes over Ekiti school, attacks teachers, pupils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Lunatic-takes-over-Ekiti-school-attacks-teachers-pupils.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Lives of teachers and pupils of AUD Primary School, Irona, Ado-Ekiti are under threat due to the activities of a lunatic that has turned the school to his abode.<\/p>\n<p>The lunatic chases pupil and throws stones at teachers anytime he sees them within the school premises.<\/p>\n<p>The mentally derailed man takes over ten blocks which he fills with huge refuse while he permanently sleeps in one of the classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the activities of the lunatic suspected rapists, burglars and Indian hemp smokers have turned the popular primary school to<br \/>\ntheir hideouts.<\/p>\n<p>These problems have led to a drop in the enrolment in the school as parents who are scared of the activities of the lunatic and criminals have withdrawn their wards.<\/p>\n<p>The head teacher, Mrs. Taibat Yusuf, in a chat with our reporter on Monday called for the intervention of the state government.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Yusuf said the activities of the lunatic and suspected criminals were constituting threats to learning in the school.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cWe are calling on the state government to intervene and help us evacuate the lunatic from the school compound because of the<br \/>\nthreat he poses to the pupils and staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lunatic chases our pupils, throws stones at teachers and always threaten them anytime they are in school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeachers and pupils are always gripped by fear that he may invade their classrooms at any time and this won\u2019t make them to concentrate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur school compound has been turned to a den of rapists, Indian hemp smokers and other criminals and this has led to the withdrawal of many pupils from the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides, we want the government to renovate the collapsing fence which gives easy access to the lunatic and men of the underworld.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of our classrooms have become dilapidated and the school also needs a gate as a form of security for teachers and pupils.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An old pupil of the school, Alhaji Olohunkemi Tajudeen Ogunjobi, who lamented the sorry state of his alma-mater also called for the assistance of the state government.<\/p>\n<p>Ogunjobi said: \u201cIt is a pity that a school which I attended has been turned to an abode of a madman and criminals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecurity of the teachers and their pupils are not guaranteed. The enrolment in the school has dropped from over 150 pupils to less than 30 because of all these problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want the Police and Civil Defence officers to come here and arrest the lunatic. Besides, government should also employ a day guard and night watchman to guard the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dilapidated classrooms should be demolished to have an open field in which pupils can play and can also be rented out for social functions to generate revenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unbelievable that the school, which was beautiful and a pride of other schools in those days, has turned to something else. We need the intervention of government and other well-meaning individuals.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lives of teachers and pupils of AUD Primary School, Irona, Ado-Ekiti are under threat due to the activities of a lunatic that has turned the school to his abode. The lunatic chases pupil and throws stones at teachers anytime he sees them within the school premises. The mentally derailed man takes over ten blocks which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[4866,594],"class_list":["post-70644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-crime","tag-ekiti"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}