Outrage as Kano University of Science and Technology lecturer caught on camera physically assaulting students in class
A video showing a lecturer at Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil subjecting students to physical punishment and assault during a lecture has surfaced online.
The video, which has since gone viral, reveals the lecturer engaging in various forms of corporal punishment.
In the video, a male student is seen undergoing the frog jump punishment, leaping from the stairs to the hall podium at the instruction of the lecturer.
Additionally, the lecturer is captured slapping two male students behind their necks while issuing instructions, and other students are shown kneeling and raising their hands.
Netizens has responded with a mix of shock and condemnation, questioning the appropriateness of such harsh disciplinary actions against university students.
Netizens Reactions…
@napoleon_sylvester1 said;Â “This is not even hilarious.
This is abuse of authority and assault. This lecture should be sued.”
@aunty_rachaell said; “The things we condone in Nigeria sha, is this not physical abuse?”
@iam_kingsean said; “Arrant nonsense, the worst a lecturer can do is to work you out of his or her class period. All these unnecessary mâdnêss shouldn’t be part of Africa anymore.”
@Blessed said; “It can only happen in the primitive northern Nigeria.”
@MikelCores said; “Seriously?”
@Ogechi Okorie said; “This day and age?He is lucky is not one of these notorious Universities. They will teach him a thing or two”
See below;
A lecturer punished his students with frog jumps and kneeling down at Kano State University of Technology, Wudil.
Can university students be subjected to punishments like frog jumps or kneeling down? pic.twitter.com/m81NE2gQSK
— Taller🥇 (@Alameen___Abba) February 5, 2024
Kano state government must take disciplinary action against a lecturer at Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, who is harassing students for coming late to class by making them kneel down, do frog jump, and beating them with his wooden hand. pic.twitter.com/hwVS4N3c37
— Fahad Danladi (@FahadKano) February 6, 2024