Ollachi Holman, a former student of Igbinedion Secondary School, has narrated what she and other students allegedly witnessed while attending the school and how some of them still grapple with the adverse effects of that experience.
She spoke out in reaction to videos circulating, showing students being subjected to extreme forms of bullying and torture by fellow students in the school.
Addressing the viral video, Ollachi explained that what Nigerians saw in the bullying video “is not that bad” compared to what she and other students suffered in the school.
She stated that in her time at the school, students were bullied so much that some attempted su!cide. She added that other students joined cults in the secondary school to get some form of protection.
She went on to claim that teachers and the school authorities made little to no attempt to stem the bullying.
She claimed that it was normal for male students to physically assault female students without consequences.
She said: “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?”
She went on to claim that one time when she was a student at the school, armed robbers broke into female hostel and when a female student ran to report to the authorities, the robbers shot at her. The following day, she claimed the school management refused to allow them inform their parents. One female student was assaulted by armed robbers who climbed on top of her with a cutlass, Ollachi said.
The following day, since they could not call their parents, the student who was assaulted with a cutlass tried warning parents who were bringing their kids to school that the school was not safe. However, Ollachi said the principal slapped her, called her a pr0stitute and told her that she was assaulted by the robbers because she is a pr0stitute. Afterwards, all students were locked up to prevent them from telling on the school.
“You want to 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 off and so that we couldn’t ask people to call our parents and tell them that we had been robbed and shot at the night before,” she said.
Ollachi said the female student who was assaulted by the robbers and was slut-shamed by their principal told her she still suffers from night tremors till today as a result of the incident.
“Children attempted su!cide 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,” Ollachi recalled.
“I personally jumped off a building and tried to k!ll 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 v!olent behaviour, which they still have not been able to recover from.”
She claimed that her brother di£d recently due to the drug habit he picked up years ago from Igbinedion.
“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 that he picked up in Igbinedion that he was never able to shake,” she said.
She added rhat she was grateful that a video of one such bullying incident was filmed so that people would see that what she has been saying for years about the school is true.
She said: “Because when I was saying it, it all seemed like I was making things up. When I was trying to tell you people the conditions in that school, it might have seemed like 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.”
She added that former students of the school need to speak out against the level of bullying in the school. She said that even those who were the bullies during their time should not shy away from also speaking out against it.
She also called out Igbinedion Education Centre over the statement they released after the video went viral.
She said: “To show you their level of incompetency, one of the names on the list at the bottom is not even alive. From what I understand, Mr Akinko is not even alive anymore, yet, his name is on that document as principal of senior school.”
She added that this buttresses her point about how incompetent the school authorities are.
Ollachi is based in the US and is a mother to a teenager.
Following the release of her video sharing her experience at the school, another shocking video has emerged showing current students of Igbinedion Secondary School bullying their colleagues.
Watch Ollachi speak in the video below.
Watch another video of another recent bullying incident in the school below.
