As schools resumed for the new session yesterday across Lagos, the
state government has vowed to shut any school that failed to provide
adequate security for its pupils, leading to the premises been used to
perpetrate defilement, rape or other illicit acts. Worried by the
increase in reported cases of defilement, the state government
commenced the exercise shutting the private primary school where
proprietor, Mr. Joseph Ogunleye was charged to court over alleged
defilement of two pupils in his school.
The 56-year-old proprietor,
who was charged before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos,
allegedly defiled a seven-year-old girl and a 10-year-old girl who were
pupils in his school on June 27, 2015 at Ijegun, Ikotun area of Lagos.
Ogunleye, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge before the
Magistrate, Mrs. O.A. Erinle. The magistrate however granted him bail in
the sum of N500,000, with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the
case till October 26, 2015.
Barely a month to the next trial,
Vanguard gathered that the state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has
directed officials of the Monitoring and Investigative department of the
State Ministry of Education to shut the school indefinitely.
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credit: By Monsuru Olowoopejo of VANGUARD.