A 45-year-old a Nigerian based in Dzodze in the Volta Region, David Simon Chukwu, has been sentenced to a fine of GH¢1, 800 by an Aflao Circuit Court for assaulting a teacher and the headteacher of the Roman Catholic Central Basic School at Dzodze, in the Ketu North Municipality.
He pleaded guilty to being on premises for unlawful purpose and assault of a public officer and was fined GH¢600 and GH¢1, 200, or go to jail for three and six months respectively in default.
The sentences run consecutively.
Chukwu, however, pleaded not guilty to the third charge – also the assault of a public officer and the Court presided over by Mr. Ali Baba Abature, adjourned the case, remanding him in police custody till October 17, this year for the prosecution to prove his guilt on the third charge.
Mr. Michael Akemo, a Detective Police Inspector of Aflao, told the court that the complainants, Ben Dzata and Godwin Dzelu, headmaster and Teacher respectively of the RC Central Basic School both resided at Dzodze, where the suspect, a trader also resided.
He said that at about 12:30 pm after the school’s second break on Tuesday, October 9, this year, a pupil reported to Mr. Dzelu, the class six teacher that he was referred to as a bastard by another pupil, Felicia Chukwu, the suspect’s daughter.
Mr. Akemo said Mr. Dzelu sent for Felicia Chukwu, a class four pupil, but she refused to show up, prompting Mr. Dzelu to follow up and whip her for refusing to answer his call.
Felicia Chukwu sneaked home and called her father, who, fuming with anger, stormed the class of the teacher who was then busily teaching and angrily demanded to know from him why he whipped his daughter.
The teacher approached Chukwu to explain the issues to him, but the suspect instead gave him a hefty slap on his left cheek in the full glare of his pupils, and when the teacher drew back, he (Chukwu) pursued him fuming.
The issue attracted other teachers and pupils of the school, resulting in total confusion, during which the headmaster, Mr. Dzata, drew closer to Chukwu, to appeal to him to stop the advance, but Chukwu held him by the hand and swung him off resulting in him (headmaster) crashing his forehead against one of the windows there.
Mr. Akemo said the headmaster in the process sustained a bump on his forehead while the class teacher had tenderness of the cheek and the police, who were quickly called in, rescued the teachers and apprehended the suspect.
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Source: GNA
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