An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has sentenced two teachers to 44 years imprisonment for raping minors.
The defendants Ajibola Gbenga (43) and Olaofe Ayodele (52) were arraigned before Justice Adeniyi Familoni on 2nd March 2022, on three-count charges bordering on rape and abuse of office.
The charge reads that “the defendants, sometime in November 2019 at Ado Ekiti within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did rape a 17-year-old girl, also the second defendant sometimes in November 2019 did rape a 15-year-old girl, 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”.
In her testimony before the Court, one of the victims said, “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 longer bear it, I narrated what happened to my mother, who later took the matter up,” she concluded. (Vanguard)