(PHOTO) SIX NAVAL OFFICERS BEAT SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER TO KOMA

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.