By Editor
A university teacher at Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology, Wudil has been accused of subjecting level 200 students to physical torture for noise disturb.
The lecturer (name omitted) was said to have taken aggressive offense to a defeaning noise during his lecture GST2201 (Nigerian People and Culture), a development that compel him to fetch out the supposed noise maker.
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The undergraduate student was subsequently asked to embark on ‘mocky jumb’, a physical posture that endear the victim to untold physical punishment.
In an open letter by a Kano based legal practitioner, Abba Hikima, insisted the attitude of the university teacher violates extent laws and should not be encouraged.
Barrister Hikima said the ugly scene which was recorded and went viral has portrayed the university in bad light just as he claimed there is no portion of the university laws that suggests a student can be subjected to a physical punishment for any reason.
Hikima warned that the university maybe liable to imminent legal consequences, failure to thoroughly investigate and act according to the embarrassing development.
According to the open letter, “My attention has been drawn to a video circulating on social media depicting 200-level students of Kano University of Science and Technology (KUST) apparently being forced to assume physical postures as a form of punishment, allegedly for being late, making noise, or other infractions, in their class of GST2201 (Nigerian People and Culture).
“If this is indeed true, then the lecturer’s action is not only outrightly unconstitutional, it also constitutes degrading treatment and violation of the students’ fundamental rights protected by S34 of Nigeria’s constitution.
“The KUST as an institution of learning founded by law, must strive to uphold the law and students’ fundamental rights by immediately restraining the lecturer and issuing a formal statement to that effect”.
Hikima further note: “This, the university must do as a matter of urgency to save its face from an impending embarrassment. Moreover, the university may be vicariously liable for doing nothing about the unconstitutional conducts of its employees.
“The affected lecturer must be sternly called out and the traumatized students made to understand that there is nothing in the law which permits a lecturer to behave the way the affected lecturer did. This I believe is key to ensuring that the university continues to graduate students with the necessary self-esteem needed to lead others in their chosen fields”. He said.
