The 'corpers VS students' strike

Uche

"LA corpers don serve finish o! They are just waiting for us so we can do P.O.P." - Jane. Lol.

Not officially, but with the way things went down last week, the above quote isn't too far from the truth.

LA Senior Grammar School is a school here in Iwo with a very bad reputation. The students are apparently spoilt and unruly. Infact, my corper friends who teach at the school say there have been quite a few corper VS student fights in the past. And apparently, the heads of the school do little or nothing to curb the students' behaviour.

Last week was another one of such corper VS student situations. I was able to get first-hand 'gist' as my friend, Uche was the corper involved.

What really happened
This notorious student, we'll name him 'Noto' for the sake of this post, as his real name is unknown, walked into Uche's classroom while a lesson was in progress. The teacher, Uche, asked him to leave, Noto starts 'bragado-ing', being troublesome and basically, putting on an 'agbero display'. Uche suspects the student must have been tipsy.

Teacher pushes him out. Noto starts looking for a stone. Uche dares him to move closer to him, Noto signals Uche to meet him outside instead for a proper fight. And so on. I couldn't help but laugh as I tried to imagine the scenario. It took me back to secondary school.

Uche left the scene when everyone started gathering around them and making a scene. 
He runs into the boy later. This time, Noto is now armed with a metal bar with which he wants to attack Uche. 

Soon after, the other corpers got involved. Those who had been in class were now outside, fuming and yelling. The Vice-Principal had apparently been watching, yet decided to remain silent. In this moment, the corpers decided that this was the perfect opportunity for rebellion: strike! They decided that they were tired of the violence, and more frustrating is the fact that the authorities don't seem to be doing anything to curb it. Apparently, one of the teachers even said to the corpers, 'Go if you want to!'. In Uche's words, "A corper almost slapped the teacher sef so thank God for almost!"

The corpers got the Local Government Assistant Inspector involved. He came down to the school to attempt sorting things out but after being treated rudely by the VP, he endorsed the strike, and decided that the school was going to be starved of corpers for a year.

Students have since come to beg the corpers at their houses claiming that Naughty Noto is not even considered a student at their school. 

As it stands, the corpers seem to be chilling and loving their break, with no plans of resuming on their minds. Lol. I asked CT when she thinks she might resume work, "Ermmm, let's see… maybe second week in January sha", she joked. The joke here lies in the fact that the second week of January is when our batch of corpers is expected to end the work aspect of our service year. 

PS: It's a town, not a village! :P