Actress Mercy Johnson denies bodyguard beat up child’s teacher
Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson has denied allegations she assaulted a teacher at her daughter’s school, stating that her daughter was “constantly being bullied” by the teacher.
The actress went on a long rant on her Instagram page explaining her daughter’s unpleasant escapades with the teacher in Chrisland School, Victoria Garden City, Lagos.
Ms Johnson said the lady, who was not her daughter’s class teacher, had been bullying her child for two weeks, and goes to her class everyday “to intimidate her.”
The actress said the teacher “uses biros to flick her hair, she tells her to her face that she doesn’t look like her mother, tells her that celebrity kids are badly behaved and she should not bring her ‘aura’, she should not bring her online drama to school.”
She said she had recently gone to pick her daughter from the school and saw her crying, and when she inquired, the child said she was shoved by her classmate and she pushed right back, but that the teacher in question “proceeded to discipline her and her only.”
She proceeded to explain her confrontation with the teacher, claiming she was unremorseful, and told her to her face that “she could punish her child whenever she likes.”
However, a social media user Nancy Chidera publicly called out the actress for physically assaulting the teacher and bringing her bodyguards afterward to inflict more harm.
Ms Chidera said the actress’s behavior was not the first, stating that a similar act had occurred in her daughter’s previous school and led to the child’s expulsion.
“This is the first year her daughter has spent in that school, she was expelled at Greensprings because her mother went to fight at Greensprings and her daughter was expelled from Greensprings,” Ms Chidera said during her live Instagram video.
In a new video with the school’s headteacher and other teachers, Ms Johnson maintained that she did not instruct her bodyguards to assault the teacher.
However, the actress did not specifically clarify or debunk if she indeed physically assaulted the teacher herself in the heat of their confrontation that happened on October 21.
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