Beautiful Beginning Academy Abuja has dismissed a viral video of the alleged bullying of a student.
The video shows senior students holding a chain around the neck of a junior student identified simply as Imtiyas.
Principal of the Abuja school Aaron Ipke told Leadership that the video was from a stage play depicting an incident of bullying of a male student by his seniors, the newspaper reported on Tuesday.
He emphasised that the school operates an open-door policy and has never recorded bullying in its 14 years of existence.
“It wasn’t a case of bullying. They staged a play. Interestingly, they did it in their hostel, and there were other students around watching,” said Mr Ikpe.
“So, if it was bullying, are you telling me that those other students watched this ‘play’ and none of them came to report it to us? That in itself proves it was a play. The students did it innocently, though perhaps taken to a certain level. Interestingly, let me tell you, the students actually arranged for the tablet they used to record it. The tablet is usually given to them during learning hours and later retrieved.”
The principal added that the other video of the boy lying sick beside was an old video that was circulated to mislead the public.
“The students admitted that it was an old video,” he said.
