Two teachers Ajibola Gbenga, 43, Olaofe Ayodele, 53, have each been sentenced to 22 years’ imprisonment by an Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti for having a non-censual sex with their students.
The two teachers who were arraigned before the court on March 2, 2020, were accused of luring the two students aged 17 years and 15 years respectively to a hotel in Ado Ekiti in 2019 and had sex with them contrary to section 31(2) of the Childs Right Law, Cap. C7, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012”. The charge further reads that “the defendants sometime in November 2019 at Ado Ekiti did abuse their offices as Public Servants, contrary to Section 104 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap. C16, Laws of Ekiti State 2012.”
One of the victims narrated her ordeal to the Court: “Mr. Ajibola was my Computer teacher; he always disturbed me while in class; on this fateful day, he told me to be in mufti, he gave me N200 to go and wait for him in front of a filling station along Bank Road, he later came there alongside Mr. Olaofe, before they came, one of my classmates also met me there, he told me Mr. Olaofe asked her to wait here for him.
“When they came, we all left for a hotel around the Oke-Ila area of Ado Ekiti; on getting there, we were taken to different rooms where Mr. Ajibola had sexual intercourse with me. After that day, he continued to disturb me, and when I could no more bear it, I narrated what happened to my mother, who later took the matter up,” she concluded.
The prosecuting counsel tendered medical reports, reports of a panel of inquiry, called four witnesses, while the accused teacher called six witnesses.
In his judgement, Justice Familoni said the teachers took advantage of the girls without searching their conscience.
“Therefore, Ajibola Gbenga is sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in count one without the option of fine, Olaofe Ayodele is sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in count two without the option of fine while the two defendants are sentenced to two years imprisonment each in count three, the terms are to run concurrently.”
