This is a little bit embarrassing, and I still feel a little bit somehow sharing it now.
Okay, so this happened some years back, it was during my SSS3 days, it was an era of what we call "pencil trousers" then, and my school has waged a way against it. So, when it began, they stationed almost all of the securities in the school at the school gate to check, and these securities has found there own way of checking. Their method was that you pull your trousers up, if it moves freely up until above your knee, you're free, if it doesn't, they either cut it with scissors or send you back home.
And believe me, my trousers wasn't pencil even though it looks like it. So, it happened that one morning, my principal himself came to the school gate and mounted guard there, he kept rechecking for everyone the school security as allowed entrance, how I wish the security man has sent me back home that day.
That day, with the way the principal wa doing, it's very obvious someone has offended him, maybe from home na she just wanted to release all of his anger on us. He picked about 8 of us, so when he was done, he called us one after the other, when it was my turn, I bend down to pull my trousers up and show him it moves freely up to the knee level, immediately I bent down, what I heard on my back was a cane, it landed at the very middle where my hand cannot touch.
I moved back from him, and he barked at me asking what I was trying to do, I tried explaining to him and all, but he wouldn't listen, he gave us strokes of the cane and asked two of the security men to match us to his office, we were the scape goat.
At his office, the real deal began, he asked us to remove our trousers but none of us answered him, that got him infuriated, he beat us like seriously, we jumped across his office, scattering everywhere and all, but this man didn't stop, it was like he was blind to everything, he was just beating us to take off our trousers, the beating was too much and long last, we had too.
After that, he asked us to go out and kneel in front of his office, omo, as how naw. Senior students, kneeling down in front of the principal's office with boxers. It was so embarrassing, but we had too. We became a
... to behold. Everybody was just looking at us as if we weren't humans. Especially the junior students, some couldn't even hide their smile. I wanted the ground to just open and swallow me up.
And as if what wasn't enough, we were taken to the school field to cut grasses and all, when it was closing time, we thought he would give us our trousers, but he didn't, we were sent home like that, come and see the way we were walking, at a point, I had to remove my school shirt and wrap it around my waist making it look as if we were coming from playing ball, it wasn't an easy one home, everyone kept staring at me as if something was actually wrong. My school to our house is far, something I had to take about two vehicles home.
That day is one I will never forget, we were told to bring our parents the second day, because of trousers o. Before going out separate ways that day, I remember we all went to the ministry of education which wa very close to our school to complain, they did agreed that his actions has gone too far but as well that we shouldn't be wearing pencil trousers too. But that was it, I went home with my boxers and wore my other school trousers to school the second day, I didn't collect the one he seized back.
The painful part? My house was far. I had to take two, sometimes three vehicles.
That day, shame followed me all the way home.
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