It is punishable if the child received some kind of injury. It is even worse if they child now begins to suffer from some kind of mental challenge due to the beating

If a child errs, you spank, but with understanding. You should be able to talk to the child first…
Spanking shouldn’t be the first option; even babies in the stomach listen

There were those who shrugged off the development as a slight on the female gender, while the more cheeky attributed it to a ploy by the president to protect the current First Lady from the ridicule that had bedeviled her predecessor, whose speeches had been turned into a national standing joke.

With intense awareness and publicity on the consequences of domestic violence and sexual abuse,perhaps the crime can be curtailed to a barest minimum.

Last month, a video surfaced on Facebook, showing several scenes of a boy of about eight-year-old heavily bullying toddlers in a daycare centre while an older lady—apparently the boy’s mother— appeared at intervals to sooth the crying toddlers, pretending to be unaware of the cause of their cries. At least her failure to reprimand the ‘little demon’ like most Facebook users described the boy, proved that.