A 31-year-old teacher working with a private school in
Ibadan, Oyo State, Adebola Adetola, has been arrested by
the Oyo State Police Command after the family of a Primary
Three pupil (names withheld) reported to the police and
accused him of having sex with their daughter.
The pupil, whose parents said will clock 10 in July this year,
was said to have opened up to the parents on Thursday,
June 4, on what had been going on between her and her
teacher, leading to his arrest on Friday, June 5.
The teacher, who attends a popular Pentecostal church in
Ibadan, is due for wedding with his fiancee in August.
But the suspect told Crime Reports that he did not commit
the crime he was being accused of, though he admitted that
the girl used to play in his room and would sleep on his rug
after school hours.
Speaking with Crime Reports, the girl, who said the suspect
was a teacher in her school as well as her after-school
lesson teacher, stated:
“I used to help Mr Adetola to carry his things to his house.
He used to teach me and four others lesson after school
hours.
“One day, when others had left, he asked me to sleep on
the bed and remove my pants. He removed his boxers and
molested me from the back. He shook and a whitish thing
came out of him. He wiped it with toilet roll. Since then, he
had been doing the same thing to me. It had been on for
some time before my mother discovered on Thursday.
“He used to give me N5 and would also buy biscuit for me.
I was using the money to buy sweets (candies) from my
mother’s shop.”
The girl said she did not tell her mother of her experience
because the teacher warned her against it, threatening that
he would beat her seriously if she did.
Explaining his side of the story, Adetola said the girl was his
student, adding that he was also very close to her parents.
“She used to come to my room and would sleep on my rug.
Her parents are well aware of her closeness to me. I have
never slept with her, not to talk of cleaning her up as she
claimed.
“It is true I used to buy things for her and give her money,
but I had no ulterior motive for doing this other than the
fact that I was close to her family. I was surprised when
police came to my school this morning to arrest me for
defilement.”
But Crime Reports learnt that the suspect’s mother told the
police that her son once did the same thing to his niece 10
years ago.