Osun Chaos Over Educational Reforms: Teacher Slashed With Machete

Osun State parents and students are protesting the new educational reforms as fighting are breaking out.

According to the information gathered earlier by Sahara Reporters, the new education reforms policy not only merged schools with different missions and faiths but reclassified grades which is causing students to fight each other over seniority. 

Reclassification brought students at one higher class together with those in a junior class with senior students exercising their authority over the junior ones.

As a result there has emerged fighting all over the state.

A fight among students at Oshogbo Grammar School resulted in bloodshed not only among students but a teacher, Mr. Thompson Olamoyegun. He was cut with a machete by some of the students.

A parent said the State PTA meeting was going on in the school when the fighting broke out which caused the meeting to end abruptly.

"We thought Mr. Thompson was dead because he has stopped breathing."

However, another source at Oshogbo claimed the teacher only fainted.

The teacher was rushed to the hospital and returned from hospital with parts of his body bandaged due to the severe injuries he had sustained from the machete attack.

Protests broke out over the closing down of Fukunle Comprehensive High School in Oshogbo. The space will be used for a Shoprite Mall or a parking lot, a development project of APC chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Fakunle students are now attending other schools in the area.

"That is just one of the scams by the State Governor Aregbesola. You'll be shocked at the billions of Naira he is enriching his son with through the Opon-Imo project he initiated," it was disclosed by one of the source. 

There was another riot in St. Mark Grammar School. Reportedly one student died.

The situation causes fear among students and their parents. Meanwhile Osun State Government has been trying to limit media exposure to the crisis.

Source: Sahara Reporters