Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, says the growing number of unruly students assaulting teachers and other students in school indicates that Nigeria has gone wayward.

“Cases of such unruly behaviour are now very rampant in the country. The collapse of discipline and orderliness in our schools is reflective of the collapse of these virtues in the larger society. Until very recently, every adult in the society is respected by the young ones while teachers are revered very highly,” the Afenifere group noted in a statement by its spokesman Jare Ajayi.

Afenifere expressed concern at the recent rampage by students of Idogbo Secondary School in Ikpoba-Okha local government area of Edo because they did not want to take the first-term examination.

The group decried the students’ attack on policemen called in by the school authority, teachers and the setting alight the school’s properties.

On December 4, a senior secondary school student was reported to have beaten a teacher to death in Abraka, Delta, for flogging his younger sister, the statement mentioned.

“No student would think of ambushing a teacher, not to talk of having the temerity to attack teachers in the school as happened in Edo and Delta states cases,” Afenifere stated.

The group also expressed condolences to 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni’s parents and families of students crushed to death by a heavy-duty truck in Ojodu, Lagos.

(NAN)