
Reports reaching our news desk say an SS1 student of Command Secondary School, Enugu, has been flogged to death by a soldier whose identity is yet to be revealed.
In relation of the student showed pictures of the deceased whose head was swollen.
It was also reported that the student (names witheld) was flogged severely on his head for not barbing his hair.
Reports said the boys head started swelling causing the parents to move him from one hospital to the other until he died.
Efforts to get the reaction of the Army failed as the Public relations Department in Enugu refused to take calls or reply to messages sent to them.
The mother, of the child Adaeze Chibuzo, in her Facebook page wrote;
“It is still very hard to believe that you are gone my son, but one thing I know is that God will surely fight for us rest in peace my son.”
Another Facebook user Nnaji Miriam Izuogu, has this to say, “This is exactly what happened to my kid brother last year November 2021, in the same skool and now this story, today. Paschal my brother is no more Rip to this soul, it’s so painful, Paschal is supposed to be writing his WAEC Exams by now, let the anger of God descend on the army killer of Paschal and this son of Ndidiamaka.
Another user, Oge Ezeji, “Madam, is very painful you have to loose your son.yesterday I was very bitter when my son came back and was narrating the story to me. A boy who is supposed to start his Inter Command Exam today.
Soldier it will not be well with you.”