There is no iota of truth in the report that two students of Bashorun High School, Ibadan, Oyo State were on Friday turned to tubers of yam by a suspected ritualist.
The Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Abiodun Abdulramah, made this clarification on Friday based on a trending report.
Abdulramah spoke when he addressed students, parents and guardians of the school when he visited the school.
The Commissioner had visited the school on Friday afternoon while on a fact-finding mission, following a report on the social media that such incident happened in the school.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the social media was awash with the news of how a suspected ritualist (names witheld) turned two students of the school to tubers of yam with unused pampers.
It was reported that the suspect was caught by a local security guard around Bode Wasinmi-Bashorun axis, at a location close to the school.
This, however, created fear in the minds of residents, especially parents and guardians, whose children and wards attend the school.
Abdulramah said findings from the school management showed that none of the school students was reported missing.
The Commissioner then called for calm, assuring them that security operatives would dig deeper into the incident to unravel details of what really happened.
He admonished the general public to remain patient, saying the safety of every resident in the state was a priority for the Governor Seyi Makinde-led administration.