As outrage continued to trail the bullying saga at the eyebrow Igbinedion Education Centre, (IEC) Benin City, Edo State, indications have emerged that the incident was not a one-off thing as a spine-chilling narrative by a yet to be identified alumnus of the school suggested that the viral video that set the social media abuzz was just a tip of the ice berg of the anti-social behaviours that had been prevalent in the school.
Three other videos have also emerged in which some junior students were seen being brutalised by senior students in a classroom.
Insiders have also accused the school of alleged complicity and coverup, hinting that the incident in the video that went viral on the social media on Friday March 13, 2026, actually happened the previous Friday but the school allegedly refused to take any action until it became public knowledge.
Responding to the video in which two students, later identified as Choice Osarumen Asoro and Dino Uyi, were captured pummelling a fellow student, the school authorities announced the expulsion of those involved.
A statement on Friday by Omosede Igbinedion, a scion of the Igbinedion dynasty and Member, representing Ovia Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, described the incident as “deeply troubling”, and commended “the swift and responsible actions taken by the Board and Management of the school in addressing the situation, including the expulsion of the students involved, the invitation extended to the police to formally document the incident, and the decision to ensure that the affected student received independent medical evaluation and care”.
Though the federal lawmaker insisted that “Bullying in any form is unacceptable”, emphasising that “the actions already taken demonstrate that the school does not tolerate such behavior”, accounts by the old student of the school in a post on the Facebook seemed to suggest that it had been the norm, such that many students had attempted suicide because of the brutality they were subjected to, while some others picked up drug habits they never recovered from.
Giving horrifying details of what she and other students endured in the school, the lady said:
“I was taking a little mental health break from Instagram, but then somebody sent me a video about my alma mater, Igbinedion Secondary School in Benin City in Nigeria and I just had to hop on here. Because when I was saying it, it almost seemed like I was making things up. When I was trying to tell you people the conditions of that school, it might have seemed that I was exaggerating.
“So, I’m grateful for social media, I’m grateful for videos so that you can all see what I was talking about. So, you see that video of the student beating the other student, I’m going to show you here; it’s triggering. (Showed a snippet of it) Those of us that went to that school know that video is not that bad”.
Accusing the school of complicity, she wondered, “Where are the adults? I recall boys slapping girls; I recall boys taking off belts and flogging girls in open spaces in the middle of the day and honestly, where were the adults?”
The former IEC student recalled an unpleasant incident in the school. “When I attended Igbinedion Secondary School, armed robbers broke into girls’ hostel and the girl that ran to call the matron was shot at by the armed robbers and I need for you to know that Igbinedion Education Centre in Benin City, Nigeria, did not notify our parents.
“In fact, my classmate and friend’s older sister started telling parents who were trying to drop their children the next day, please don’t bring your children to this school. Armed robbers came her last night, and they won’t let us call our parents. I want to let you know that the principal, maybe she was head of centre at that time, God rest her soul, slapped that young lady, called her a prostitute and told her that if the robbers had tried to assault her, and they did, that it was her fault because she was a prostitute.
“You know what Igbinedion did after that? They locked us in the dorm so that we couldn’t come out and tell other parents not to drop the kids off and so that we couldn’t tell people to call our parents to tell them that we had been robbed and shot at the night before.
“My dear, these are just a few of many stories that I can tell you about that school. Children attempted suicide to get out of that school before they now decided that joining the ranks and beating people up and joining this bad behaviour was the only way to survive. I personally jumped off a building and tried to kill myself in the year 2000 to get out of that school. And I have a friend and a classmate who tried to hang himself from a ceiling fan three times to escape life in Igbinedion.
“Many children picked up drug habits, many children picked up violent behaviour which they still have not been able to recover from. Last year, in July of 2025, I went to Mexico and cremated my brother and brought his ashes home. He lived his life with a drug problem he picked up from Igbinedion that he was never able to shake”.
Advocating a collective action to stem the tide, she said “Those of us that went to that school really need to push, advocate against things like this. Even if you know you participated in stuffs like this, I promise you, it is fine to speak out against it because we are adults now.
“The truth of the matter is that when you put children in that kind of situation, I need you to think about Lord of the Flies, they will all continue to do it if that is the norm. Children’s brains are not set up in a way where they know how to even regulate and stop those stupid rubbish like this when it is normalised.
“The people that are responsible are the people that are in charge because, where were the adults, where were the teachers? And those were the questions that we asked when we were students at Igbinedion Secondary School. Where were the adults?”