A 12-year-old pupil of Chilongoshi Basic School has been admitted to Kasama General Hospital after being caned by his teacher.
Northern Province Community Crime Prevention Unit (CCPU) acting chairperson Maybin Chilufya revealed the development to ZANIS in Kasama yesterday that the incident happened on Tuesday, this week.
Mr. Chilufya, who identified the victim as Evans Musonda, said the pupil was repeatedly caned on his left palm by his teacher resulting in him sustaining serious injuries.
He said the teacher allegedly beat-up the pupil for refusing to do manual work within the school premise.[quote]
Mr. Chilufya explained that after injuring the boy, the teacher is alleged to have attempted to bribe the father to the child by offering him K100, 000 cash.
However, some alert CCPU members thwarted the illegal transaction and the injured pupil was then rushed to hospital for medical attention.
The condition of the pupil, who is said to be in grade six, has been described as stable.
The suspect has not yet been apprehended.
Efforts to get a comment from Northern Province police Chief Charles Lungu failed by press time.
However, the Ministry of Education banned corporal punishment in all schools in the country sometime back and any teacher found abrogating the law risked disciplinary action including prosecution for causing bodily harm to an individual.
ZANIS
Please dust off the code of conduct and apply it accordingly on this teacher. Maybe, he is still stuck in the past !
Some people are wicked,honestly how do you beat a child like that.That teacher shud be apprehended not only for beating the pupil but for corruption.Foolish teacher,ifimano ububi!
Some kids are naughty!!!!!! They deserve a crack on there buttocks.Parents pliz discipilne you kids coz they really make the work of teachers hard.
i hated sku because f dat stuff…hes lucky its his hand….my a** went thru hell!!!
People are wicked!!!!!
That teacher should be locked up,fyabupuba ifi.There are better ways of punishing a child that beating.
Abantu bamo bakali ayi,mpaka naku hospital,iyo balilopola.
Are you saying da bali was about to get tha 100 pib bribe stupid fatha and teacher
Thank God its not my child pantu uyo teacher ngalichimona..
Wow, I always laugh they way we used to be canned in schools in 1980-1990s. I always remember getting ten severe strokes from my teacher for the offence I never committed.
Some teachers are just overexcited. I remember some foolish teachr giving me 12 canes in grade 7 over very flimsy grounds up to now i still cant understsnd why he behaved like that.
Transfer some of these teachers to work as expatriates in the UK where a pupil cantheir teacher to s..k your D..
Iam a victim of this and ardent opponent .The problem is since corporal punishment was abolished,there has not been a clear penalty for teachers indulging in it .
A pure violation of Human Rights !!!! Some one please deal with this teacher accordingly.
YOU MUST BE LUCKY THAT PUPILS HAVE NO ACCESS TO GUNS OTHERWISE THIS MAY LEAD TO ANOTHER MASSACRE LIKE ;
WINNENDEN ( 2009 Germany) or Littleton in the USA !!!
Anyone heard of such massacres in African schools ?
Maybe the pupil will return with an axe !!
The barbaric school capital punishment still exists???
Wonder what the kid was caned with,i always hated being hammered with a duster or a ka piece of parquet flooring(for those of us who went to schools like kansenshi primary 82-88). The best the teacher would have done was to go for the odd ‘ubwembya bwa malubeni’ and shud have hammered da kid on da buttocks and da calfs! We survived it, so could they.no wonder abaice batumpile.
Shambocking pupils is good, #9 Are you not aware that England has re-introduced that kind of punishment. When Zambia abolished it, the results are there to see. Guess! Massive negligence in schools. The teacher did not hnow where to target… Next time focus on BUTTOCKS and shambock those above 15 years (threaten small ones don’t beat them).
#15 teachers did not Know….
No one touches my kid…otherwise their entire village will be worse of than Hiroshima.#15 I live in the UK and there is no such a thing.Infact the Catholic churches is under investigations for that.There is no way anyone can beat up a child to a point where they end up in hospital.if that teacher has any frustrations he should direct them elsewhere not on a mere child.Infact I would struct him off the register.
SPARE THE ROLD AND SPOIL THE CHILD PLS HAMMER THE BATOCKS NXT TIME.NABATUMPA SANA ABAICHE BA THESE DAYZ..PLS ALSO PARENTS TEACH YOUR KIDS TO OBEY THEIR TEACHERS…
The culprit has not been apprehended? The Zambian law is a farce. No wonder crime, of all sorts, is out of control. Men and women don’t seem to know their job descriptions. How very sad.
#9 Makweti, are you back in Popley, love?
TiT for Tat…………. that teacher must be taught a lesson, its not the pupils fault that he gets peanuts for salary,,, Ninsala ba teacher ilenga ichifukushi cha bupuba!
This is clearly abuse of authority but some of us can sing songs about similar things we’ve been through. Even at age 16, I we used to be bent over and thrashed by some Headmasters at Secondary School…and that has made us become the law-abiding and authority-respecting citizens we now are.
That was abuse to the pupil its time all zambians know their rights before they pay the price.could the govt look into making rules to protect vulnarable people please.
How does anyone encourage beating of other peoples children? That is a human rights issue and the right people need to swing into action. You cannot beat some one to the point of hospitalization in the name of instilling discipline. there are other effective methods. This teacher need to be taught a lesson. MoE/PEO/police in northern province need to discipline this teacher so he never repeats barbarism.
Sad reading! it also happened to me at kalulushi sec.I even came to hate this teacher Cha….. and never gaver up schooling.
#3, are u for real?
#14. Yah, men. I have heard of massacres in African schools! Pregnancies!
I don’t understand why people take out their frustrations on poor kids. I believe in discipline but not to the extent that a child is taken to the hospital to be attended too!! Even though the Bible encourages not to spare the rode, it does not instruct parents on maiming the children!!
Uyo teacher needs to be suspended or something coz that behavior is inexcusable!!!
Spanking must be re introduced. we have seen rudeness creep back into the classroom just because the teachers have been told not to beat anymore. abaice are drinking carelessly this time than when we had corporal punishment. How can a 12year old boy refuse to do manual work, the type of work that has contributed greatly to my being disciplined? respect teachers and don’t just look at the issue from the non existent human rights. mind you at school the human rights lean toward the teacher but at the house of the pupil, the teacher has to fold his tail, meaning we shall never have absolute human rights or else, no one will rule as all of us will want to be president since its our right and we want it to be done there and then
I remember receiving serious mercyless stroks back at Chibombo Sec school.Not only once but uncountable times.More over after the stroks then you would be told to dig a pit..I lived thru it so i guess the chap can live wif it too…But i just hope that teacher didnt fight wif his wife then went to take it out on the poor kid coz s**t like that happens….
I remember too the old days at David Kaunda Tech. when I used to get those mercyless strokes. The sad part is most of the time I wasn’t even wrong. Just a dunk on the basketball court had me summoned to the senior masters office for caning on grounds that is was, in their words, ‘intentional vandalism’ Worse, these guys had no idea about about the game of basketball.
Was he drunk? Please stop the rot
I am still bitter about the beating i got when i was a sugo, now am a father and to be honest i don’t know what i would do to a chap who would dare do that to my kid! That teacher or torturer belongs in a cage somewhere. Better still in chimbokaila where he can have brothers run a train on his a@%.
In UK its called child abuse!!! someone call 999 and ask for the Police.
What about pa Zed?
In the us its still called child abuse and such a teacher would go to jail for up to five years. there’s a beter way to punish kids than abusing them. I think the teacher should be punished. This will set an example to the others who might be on their way to doing the same. The thing about Zambia is, we have people like my brother who go to teach in the classroom straight from the Kachasu brewer’s house. How does such a teacher even have the judgement not to do such evil to our children let alone teach them?. The system has failed our youngsters because of lack of accountability.