Islamic cleric and 60 others, beat 14-year-old boy to comma in Kwara

Islamic cleric, identified as Alfa Moshood,  allegedly beat up one of his students to coma, on Thursday, for failing to take his bath and for stealing his locally made safe, popularly called ‘Kolo’.

It was gathered that the incident happened at the cleric’s Qur’anic centre at Ogidi, Opposite Federal College, Ilorin.

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The fourteen-year-old boy, name undisclosed, when regained consciousness, revealed that Alfa flogged him severely before instructing about sixty people who were around at that time in his Qur’anic centre at Ogidi, Opposite Federal College, Ilorin, to flog him ten strokes each while he was held down on a table by able-bodied men.

The victims stated that he’s the first child of his mother, Ajara, and was enrolled in the Qur’anic centre by his mother, about a year ago.

It was learnt that, the Islamic cleric is nowhere to be found since the day the incident was reported to the National Human Right Commission, Kwara State branch.

Confirming the incident, a representative of the commission, Barrister Ahmed Rufai, said the boy is presently on admission at an undisclosed hospital in Ilorin West Local Government while efforts are on to arrest the said teacher.