Nigerian doctor residing in the United Kingdom has had his 16-year-old son taken into custody by the government following an incident where he disciplined the boy by using a belt to administer corporal punishment.
The information was brought to light by a child rights advocate with the username “pepstalk1” on her Instagram page on Wednesday.
According to her account, the doctor punished his son after discovering him and his friends watching an inappropriate video while they were supposed to be studying together.
Subsequently, the friends reported the incident to the police, claiming that during the punishment, the doctor repeatedly said to his son, “Is this how you want to become a doctor?”
She said, “Two friends of a Nigerian doctor’s son two months ago came over to the doctor’s residence to sleep over and study in preparation for their General Certificate of Secondary Education examination.
“At 3 am in the night, the doctor tip-toed into the boy’s room and caught them watching an improper video, the father got angry with his son and beat him with a belt in front of his friends.
“The two friends ran out of the scene to call the police and they came over and took the boy away. The case was later held in court and during the session, the friends said that they heard the father saying that “Is this how you want to become a doctor” while beating his son?
“The boy also said that his father was always beating him to study the subject that he doesn’t want and his father want him to study medicine at the university.
“The court later ruled that the doctor’s 16-year-old son be taken into custody care and can no longer go back to his father’s house.”
