What has been described as an abomination happened in Azaraegbelu Owerri North LGA of Imo State where youths of the mentioned village attacked a catholic priest (names withheld) over an alleged asking for reduction of school fees and stoppage of facing the school St Mary’s secondary school Azaraegbelu.
Information reaching our desk says that the youths of the area who claimed that the school fees of the mission school is too much for the wards to pay, stated that they are demanding that their people who are indigenes of the place should pay a sum of (15,000) fifty thousand naira against 35,600 naira paid by other students in the school.
It was also gathered that when the principal who is a priest was trying to know what was the problem with the youths visit in the school, they stated beating him with all kinds of things resulting to removing one of the Rev Fathers teeth.
It was also gathered that even one of the teachers who did not know what was happening ran into the youths he received the beating of his life as one of the female teachers who ran to call for help, as she could not back before the youths left the school compound with all the chickens in the school numbering over 200 birds making students of the school run for their dear life as some of the youths who committed the act ran out of the village due to the fear of police, as the Rev Father and the teacher is now in the hospital receiving treatment.
