The police in Gombe have arrested a 38-year-old teacher for allegedly defiling four pupils.
The pupils who are aged eight, nine, 12, and 14 years respectively are sisters from the same father.
Mahid Abubakar, the Command’s Public Relations Officer said this in a press statement issued in Gombe on Wednesday, March 15, 2023.
Abubakar said the suspect, Abubakar Muhammed was arrested for alleged sexual assault.
The police spokesman said the suspect was arrested on March 7 at about 11am following complaints from the pupils’ father, Adamu Ali who reported that the sexual assault was committed between Jan. and March.
“The suspect who resides in Malam-inna quarters, Gombe committed the offence at the Islamiyya school located in the same community.
”The victims were taken to the hospital for medical examination,” he said.
He further stated that the suspect had confessed to the crime and would soon be charged to court for prosecution.
In a related development, Abubakar said three suspects were also arrested for defiling three sisters aged 12, 15, and 17.
He said the complaint was reported to the police by the girls’ father Aliyu Adamu of Malam inna quarters and one Alhaji Abba who is attached to National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Gombe State.
Abubakar said the suspects, Sani Adamu, 50; Adamu Muhammed, 40, and Bakura Muhammed, 30 had confessed to the crime and would soon be charged to court for prosecution.
He further said two other suspects were also arrested for criminal conspiracy and armed robbery.
The police officer assured that the command was working to ensure that young persons and children across the state were secured from criminals, hence appeal for credible information from the public to rid the state of criminality.
“The command wishes to once again call on parents or guardians to keep closer watch over their children and monitor their activities in schools, on errand or playing with their peers at public places especially girl child.”
Osun: Sacked Teachers Beg Governor Adeleke For Their Jobs
The 1,500 primary and secondary school teachers in Osun State recruited by the immediate past administration of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola have once again pleaded with Governor Ademola Adeleke to rescind his executive order that nullified their appointment, noting that failure to do so would push them back into unemployment.
The affected teachers while addressing journalists in Osogbo on Monday, February 13, 2023, also added that their employment by the former administration followed due process.
The sacked teachers who resumed work under the administration of Adegboyega Oyetola were yet to be paid their salaries.
Daily Post recalls that earlier in January 2023, the teachers had urged the Adeleke administration to look into their plight and pay their salaries, pleading that four of their colleagues had died of depression.
Speaking on behalf of her colleagues, Isola Eunice pleaded with the governor to have mercy on them by addressing them and letting them know their fate on the teaching job.
“We have done everything possible to get his (Governor Adeleke’s) attention but we have not been able to get his response. We are dying of depression because a great number of us had resigned from our former places of employment,” she stated.
Another of the affected teachers, Adedeji Emmanuel argued that their recruitment which started in 2020 followed due procedure before they all got their appointment letters on September 30, 2022.
Emmanuel, who lamented that most of them graduated some 10 to 15 years ago, added that it will not be palatable for the government to force them back into the street as jobless individuals.
Source: Vanguard
