Ace Nigerian comedian, Bovi Ugboma, has strongly condemned the common practice of secondary school students disciplining their younger schoolmates.
The comedy merchant made his stance known while addressing a group of students at the Excellence in Leadership Conference which was hosted by billionaire businessman, Tony Elumelu.
Bovi who holds very strong opinions about bullying in schools, said;
“Looking at it in broad daylight for years and that is empowering students to discipline students.
It is insane, we are crazy in this country, you have no idea.
There is nothing normal about it that my child that I gave birth to, I will come to school and they will tell me that one student punished him, either by flogging or asking him to kneel down.
The oldest child in secondary school is an average of 16 years, what does a 16 year old know? Then you give that child power to discipline another child? There’s nothing right about it.”
Bovi believes that the job of senior secondary students is just to guide the younger ones, insisting they have no right to discipline their fellow students.
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