A school teacher, Akintunde Ajayi, of Fazir-I-Omar Senior High School in Iwaya, Yaba area of Lagos state is currently in The state police command custody for allegedly forcing an 18-year-old pupil, Mary (not real name), to perform oral sex on him for marks.
A report had on March 27detailed how the teacher, who teaches Mathematics in the school, allegedly pressurized the victim to give him oral s*x twice and further demanded s*x in exchange for marks.
Mary, an Abia State indigene who resides in the Makoko area of Lagos, had narrated to our reporter how she was first forced to give her teacher oral sex at the age of 16 when she was in Senior Secondary School 1.
The victim, now in SSS 2, explained that on two different occasions, she succumbed to pressure and gave the teacher oral s*x.
She alleged that the teacher further demanded s*x if she truly want to graduate from the school with her classmates, but she refused.
Speaking with our reporter on Friday, the spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, DSP Bala Elkana, confirmed the 39-year-old teacher had been arrested. Elkana identified the suspect
He said, “The teacher’s name is Akintunde Ajayi and he is 39. I must commend The PUNCH for the detailed report because the information provided therein has helped us.
“We moved into action when we read it. We have the said teacher in custody and we are making efforts to find out whether there are other victims in the school apart from the girl that raised the alarm.”
Elkana added that the police was working with other stakeholders to conduct in-depth investigations into the matter.
Meanwhile, a non-governmental organisation which campaigns against sexual abuse and violence on women, Jewels Hive Initiative, has called on the Lagos State Ministry of Education, the police and other authorities to ensure that justice prevailed in Mary’s situation.
JHI’s founder, Mrs Oluwatoyin Falaiye, said the organisation had rehabilitated the victim and would provide further assistance to her and her family.
Falaiye also demanded the Lagos State Ministry of Education to re-enroll the victim in another school in the state for her to be healed of her trauma.
She said, “We have ensured that the victim is getting some help and counsel. We have taken her to a safe place for counselling and therapy. She, her mother and siblings live in a dingy one-bedroomed apartment and we strongly feel that they are not safe because she is already being shamed and stigmatised.
“We will do our best to raise some money to get them a befitting apartment and we demand that the Lagos State Government should ensure that the victim is safely re-enrolled in another school and that her molester be made to face the full wrath of the law.”