Crime

Osun Government Suspends Teacher for Fraud

By Web News 500

Osun State Government has suspended a teacher, Abimbola Olowookere for allegedly defrauding some recently recruited teachers to the tune of N30,000 claiming to influence their posting.

Reports got to the Osun State Ministry of Education that said Mr Olowookere has been collecting the money from the teachers in Osun East Education District so as to post them to their preferred school of choice anywhere outside the district.

Briefing newsmen on the matter, the State Commissioner for Education, Mr Folorunsho Oladoyin, who condemned the act, advised the recently recruited teachers not to listen to anyone who demands money or other gratification from them under the guise of influencing their postings.

He said the State Government had recruited the first batch of 1,000 teachers with the determination to post them to schools and towns where their services are basically needed.

The Commissioner stressed that the posting of the new teachers rests solely with the state Ministry of Education and the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, saddled with the official responsibility of knowing where the teachers are needed.

Mr Oladoyin however warned any teacher or official of government who is still in the act of collecting money before rendering one service or the other to desist from it or be ready to face the full weight of the law.

Temitope Mosadomi

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Crime

Teacher Arraigned for Sexual Assault on Pupils

By Web News 507

A nurse, Oluchi Nwoke-Okoi, has told an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court how an Arabic teacher, Farouk Adam, allegedly inserted his finger in the private parts of nine pupils, aged between seven and thirteen years.

Farouk faces a nine-count charge bordering on sexual assault.

Nwoke-Okoi, a registered nurse and midwife, while being led in evidence by the state prosecutor, Olufunke Adegoke, said she was a staff of the Women At Risk Foundation (WARIF) and had 15 years of experience in midwifery.

The witness told the court that she attended to nine survivors and conducted vagina examinations on seven of them after their mothers brought them to the WARIF centre on Feb. 20, 2019.

“The survivors and their mothers were brought to the centre by police officers. We took time to question each of the survivors and also conducted a vagina examination on them.

“Seven of the survivors said that the defendant, who is their Arabic teacher, on several occasions, inserted his fingers into their vaginas.

“The 8th survivor said the defendant only touched her breast while the 9th survivor told us that she was afraid to attend the Quranic class after her sister told her that the defendant inserted his fingers into her vagina.

“Vagina examination was carried out on them. Based on their histories and the vagina examination, the result shows the absence of hymen. The conclusion is suggestive of sexual assault of a minor,” she said.

The witness told the court that the youngest of the survivor was seven years while the oldest was 13 years.

In cross-examination by defence counsel, A.O. Okonkwo, Nwoke-Okoi said she was certified by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN), adding that the vagina examination she carried out on the survivors was not outside her practice.

The prosecuting counsel informed the court that the witness was the last prosecution witness in the case and prayed the court to order the defendant to open his defense.

The alleged offence contravened Section 261 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, (2015).

Justice Abiola Soladoye adjourned the case until Oct. 5 for the defendant to open his defense.

FRCN Abuja/Adetutu Adetule

Crime

Ogun Court Jails Student For Harrassing Teacher

By Web News 692

An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a twenty year-old secondary school student, Segun Dosumu, to three weeks imprisonment with hard labour, for threatening to kill his teacher.

Segun Dosumu, who leaves at Iboro Yewa area of Ogun state had pleaded guilty to the charge when appeared in Court.

The Magistrate, Mr Sotayo on reviewing the charge convicted the accused of the charge.

He said that besides the admission of guilt, all the evidences presented in court had proven beyond reasonable doubt that the convict was guilty of the offence as charged.

The magistrate sentenced him to three weeks in the correctional centre with hard labour.

The sentence however has  an option of two hundred thousand naira fine.

Earlier while reviewing the facts of the case the Prosecutor, Mr. Wale Diyaolu had told the court that the defendant committed the offence at Eyinni Comprehensive High School, Iboro, Yewa North of Ogun.

He said that the convict, a Senior Secondary three student threatened to kill his teacher with a bottle.

The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Section 86 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun 2006.

Wale Oluokun