The Ogun State command of the Nigeria Police Pressure has introduced the arrest of a student-teacher in reference to an incident that resulted in an 11-year-old pupil shedding her proper eye.

The injured pupil, Alao Idera, is a sixth-grade pupil at Owiwi Nursery and Major College situated within the Obada Oko space of the state.

Stories point out that the trainer, Adeola Adeyemo, is a final-year pupil on the Tai Solarin College of Training in Ijebu Ode, the place she is at present finishing her educating observe on the college.

In a press release relating to the incident, the police public relations officer, Omolola Odutola, defined that Adeyemo was reportedly holding a cane within the classroom when a gaggle of main six pupils approached her, resulting in the cane by chance piercing the pupil’s proper eye.

The injured pupil was promptly taken to the Federal Medical Centre in Abeokuta, the state capital, the place the broken eye was surgically eliminated.

“The kid was instantly taken to the Federal Medical Centre in Abeokuta for remedy. Following this criticism, the trainer, Adeola Adeyemo, a 400-level pupil from Tai Solarin College in Ijebu Ode who was in educating observe, was swiftly arrested and is at present being interrogated,” she stated.

She, nonetheless, clarified that the trainer didn’t flog the coed, nor did the coed do something fallacious.

“It was merely a state of affairs the place the trainer, making ready for an end-of-year celebration, was holding a cane, as lecturers typically do.

“Nevertheless, when the coed rushed towards her, the cane by chance prompted harm to the coed’s eye. The 11-year and previous main six pupil underwent surgical procedure on the Federal Medical Centre, the place her proper eye was eliminated.

“After realising that the coed’s proper eye had been eliminated, the trainer tried suicide however was shortly rushed to the hospital the place she is at present secure,” the police spokesperson famous within the assertion.