No harm intended, just fun. Yet mates are seen mobbing and bullying each other.
The
celebrating victims have just finished their final exams in Kogi State
University and mates are celebrating the feat in a bizarre style.
Friends,
junior schoolmates and well wishers are celebrating with them. But not
in the conventional party mode you know. This is ‘rough and dirty.’
Graduands
in Kogi state University are literally flogged, dragged on bare floor,
and bathed with dirtiest and most stinking waste water – sometimes saved
for the party.
Celebrants take no offence at the bizarre
treatment, they endure it because they are overjoyed with graduating, an
achievement that is not guaranteed for many university students in
Nigeria.
The celebration is paradoxically fun for the students and have gradually grown into a huge tradition.
Some
Alumni say celebratory bullying, seen in this video, is a new peak for a
tradition which started with wetting graduands’, fresh from final
examination classrooms, with water from ‘pure water’ bags or wine from
expensive bottles.
Tales around the school have it that one
student collapsed after she was choked with peppery waste water prepared
to celebrate her graduation.
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