The Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), of
Queens College, Lagos said in Lagos on Monday that it had set up panel to
investigate alleged sexual harassment in the school.
Chairman of the PTA, Beatrice Akhetuanen, told
a news conference that the panel would be working with the Police Station in
Sabo, Yaba to investigate the teacher said to be perpetrating the act.
According to online report, the teacher is
said to have sexually harassed a JSS II student of the school.
The report claimed the teacher was usually
drunk, and started molesting the girl who screamed and was rescued by some of
the girls, booing him.
The student's mother alleged that she reported
the case to the House Mistress who confirmed the teacher was in the habit of
doing such and there was nothing anyone could do to him.
She alleged that the case was also reported to
the Vice Principal but she said the teacher would not be allowed to leave the
school that instead, her daughter would leave.
Akhetuanen said no parent had reported any
sexual harassment to the principal or vice principal and that the teacher was
not living in the school.
The PTA chairman, however, pleaded with the
aggrieved parent to come forth so that the case could be looked into.
Earlier, the SSS III students were seen
protesting, saying that the accused had been set up by someone and was unjustly
accused.
