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THE CHRONICLES OF ADE
(ROLL CALL OF JOGS' TEACHERS, Final Episode)
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If there was anyone who was a victim of flogging in JOGS, I am a living testimony. This week's episode is the final series on my teachers while in secondary school, JOGS.

Today's episode shall cover the Principals and Vice Principals and some few teachers I had encounter with that were not captured in my previous episode.

The first Principal I met as a new entrant to JOGS was Mr Kujore. Baba had the opportunity to flog me once, but my ancestors held his hand as he asked Mr Teti, our Hausa teacher to beat me instead.

Some teachers will not make heaven. Mr Teti that was just supposed to give me warning flogging was rolling the sleeves of his shirt. As he was rolling it, I was rehearsing how to roll on the floor.

And it wasn't like I did anything really bad. My offence was that I was playing four post(s) during short break. My village people did not allow me to enjoy the game until after they rang the bell for break over. At this point, I was scoring goals and new sets were coming in.

It was during one of my jubilations after scoring against a dreadful buddy who had been exiting everyone that I heard the word "Go down on your knee". As I made move to run away like others, I hit a tough brick on my way.

The tough brick was my principal, wearing his Panama cap. He never had issues with me at first. I became a singled out for sure flogging when he asked me to produce others that we were playing together and I told him that I dont know them.

Of a truth, I really don't know any of them but I later learnt that they were repeaters who because of shame couldn't sit in class to have lectures with their juniors.

Back to the wicked Mr Teti who was rolling his sleeves, he asked me to lie flat on the floor in front of the Administrative office like a Christian corpse. As he landed the cane on my buttocks, I rose up and ran like someone pursued by a madman.

He called me back to take the remaining strokes. As I was lying down, I remembered the biblical verse which says I shall lift my eyes up to the hills, from whence cometh my help. Brethren, help failed to come from anywhere, it was another aircraft that crashlanded on my buttocks.

I jumped up like someone who has just received his miracle, this wicked teacher wouldn't simmer in his desire to see me pump out every useful water in my eyes. He was gallantly beating me like when Fadeyi Oloro was harming people in the popular Arelu movie. Iya ma je mi o....

I usually hear that our principal, Mr Kujore keeps groundnuts, kolanuts and some other chewable substances in his pocket. I can't affirm or reject but he was a disciplinarian and a good father. He scolded me for my woeful 1st term results and encouraged me to do better.

Mr Yeboha was the Vice Principal (Academics) when I gained admission. He's a Ghanaian and gentleman to the core. I have never seen him run out of temper until some later days in the school. It was him who processed my admissions and allocated me to class in JSS1.

He equally became the Acting Principal at a point when we had no substantive Principal on ground. I was already rejoicing that a man who understands and listen to me would be in power until I heard a gist that his non indigene status affected him from becoming the Principal.

Another Principal that I never really had much contact with was Mr I. J. Adenuga. He was gentle and seldom ready to help. Students and Teachers progressed under his administration. He is my main man.

The third principal that had life time effect on me was Chief Olugbesan. He came to JOGS when truancy was almost in everyone's blood. He was a disciplinarian with the physical feature of Olusegun Obasanjo.

He addressed us like a military administrator on the assembly any time he comes around in his agenda and cap. This is the principal in the history of JOGS that motivates teachers to flog students to stupor.

I have always escaped his ambush because he encouraged teachers to be ruthless with undisciplined students. This stems from lateness, scaling of fence, loitering in the neighbourhood during school hours, filthiness in school uniform, truancy and the likes.

His popular phrase is "if you think you are clever, always know that another person is cleverer than you are". Whenever he speaks these words, we sniff trouble looming.

In his time, students were given mass beating twice. The first was minor and it was due to students absconding class for a football match between JOGS and LUBA. Though we won, but those who missed school lesson without prior permission were subjected to the satanic beatings.

The second beating was a massive one. It was a product of flagrant indiscipline by some SS3 students to teachers on mock Exams. Brethren, awon boys je pabambari iya.

That day was indescribable. It was Armageddon war in JOGS. Roll calls were taken to ascertain those who didnt write the exams. Those who also pointed accusing fingers at teachers were not spared either.

The event could be tagged the Day of Reckoning. It was the day that I knew that school has special store for canes as different sizes were brought out to deal with deviant individuals. Boys were not smiling.
Our Principal was laughing when students were crying. Awon eeyan Abacha

Our principal was so disciplined that the beloved Otolorin and Femi Osineye that mistakenly went out of camp to greet relatives during one of our AIONIAN years when they ought to be representing JOGS in debate and Quiz competition were given public beating on the Assembly ground

Several students were suspended and a few expelled during his era. Students fearfully run across the Administrative block in his era. I escaped his beating until the day I was writing mathematics in WAEC.

I read overnight with some colleagues in the hostel and arrived late to the exam hall. The painful part was that during WAEC, most borders wear our school uniforms without any underwear.

As I was about entering the exam hall, the Principal called me back and rebuked me for being late. I apologised and was about going to my seat when he ordered for cane. I thought he was going for another mission until I was asked to marry the wall.

This man spoilt my clean sheet. The strokes of cane were landing on my fleshy buttocks because I only wore uniform without underwear. I was trying very hard to form King Kong. I didnt know when tears began to fall from by eyes.
Mo bara je.

In all, Chief Olugbesan was a good man who wouldn't want students to be rotten. He moulded us to be good ambassadors and I can say that till date, his philosophy formed a large part of me. May his soul rest in peace.

Mr Odusina was a Vice Principal in JOGS whose acts and deeds were not different from the popular James Bond. To him, action speaks louder than voice.

Mr Odusina would quietly queue behind students on the assembly ground to pick dirty and noisy fellows. He would run and lay ambush for students who usually prove difficult in the eyes of the law.

He uses point and kill approach to fish out students on the assembly. Especially those who glory in disturbing the peace of others like Pela and Seyi Oduntan. It was him who made me to come kneel down on the assembly ground for the first and only time in my school life.

The last character I will examine in this episode is Mr Adenowo. Baba was a disciplinarian for all borders that passed through him. I learnt that he was an Agric teacher but I am sure that fear wouldn't let some students concentrate in his class.

He is baba for the borders and I can say that he ran the JOGS boarding house successfully like his personal business. Man has zero tolerance for cheating and bullying. And he successfully built himself army of soldiers from the league of borders that passed through his tutelage.

His beatings can be tagged HELL 101: (Introduction to Hell). Nobody gets flogged by Mr Adenowo, alias Asiwaju without winking or grunting. And he doesn't beat without justification.

Baba realised when to step down from the energy sapping duties by hiring two wardens to oversee the welfare of JOGS borders. Mr Adenowo, I will forever respect your manliness, sagacity and virtues.

This wraps up this week episode on The Chronicles of Ade.
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