Nigerian students tied to crucifixes and beaten for coming late to school
By Bukola Adebayo, CNN
Updated 1:21 PM ET, Fri May 18, 2018
Corporal punishment yet to be outlawed in Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Three people including a school principal have been arrested in Nigeria for allegedly tying two students to makeshift crucifixes and flogging them for coming late to school, a police spokesman told CNN.
The pupils were being flogged by a teacher in front of their school Wednesday morning in the remote town of Ayetoro, Ogun State, northwest of Lagos.
"They were tied to a wooden trees made to look like a crucifix when a policeman on patrol saw them. They told the principal and the school proprietor to untie them and they refused. They even beat one of the people who intervened," Abimbola Oyeyemi, Ogun State police spokesman told CNN.
Read more at: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/africa/nigeria-corporal-punishment/index.html
Ogun is not in the North and with my limited knowledge, this is not appearing as if Muslims did this but who knows. Map of Nigeria below, Ogun in red.
