A 19-year-old student (name withheld) of Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife has been arrested by the Osun State police command for beating his school principal, Mr Ademola Sanusi to a state of coma on Friday.

Teachers around the scene of the incident were said to have fled the place to avoid being beaten blue-black alongside their principal.

The student who said to be the arrowhead of the evil act is presently being detained at the state police command helping the police to fish out his other colleagues who fled the scene of the incident before the arrival of the police.

Speaking on the matter, the spokesperson of the police command in the state, Mrs Yemisi Opalola confirmed the beating but said that the perpetrator of the act has been arrested

The police spokesperson further hinted that investigations are ongoing on the matter with the assurance that, the other perpetrators of the callous and inhuman act would not go scot-free.

She, however, hinted that relevant clues that would help the police in their investigations are being put together from the arrested offender and expressed optimism that, in no distance time, the law would take its course.

In his reaction, the Osun State Commissioner for Education, Folorunso Oladoyin condemned the act he described as indecent and uncultured.

He maintained that the 19-year-old culprit and his gangsters will not go unpunished and expressed disappointment on the untoward act stressing that students of public schools in the state he knew were disciplined, cultured and well behaved.

Oladoyin warned against such callous and rudely acts in the future saying, such incidents will not in any form or manner be tolerated henceforth in all Osun public or private schools.

He vowed that the state government would make scapegoats of any student caught in any act of indiscipline by being made to face the full wrath of the law and advised them henceforth against truancy and hooliganism that could disturb the peaceful atmospheres of all schools in the state.