Eko Hot Blog reports that the Principal of the Federal Government College (FGC), Ijanikin, Lagos, Tofunmi Akamo, has confirmed the report that some students of the school were found to have lodged at an hotel near the school and engaged in sexual activities.
Punch Newspaper had earlier on Wednesday reported that the students, who were all boarders, had on different occasions jumped the school’s fence with their female counterparts and stayed out of school for days.
The newspaper reported that the school authority got to know about the escapades after one of the students impregnated a female classmate, according to Punch.
However, the school’s principal denied that a student was impregnated due to the escapades.
In an interview with Premium Times on Wednesday, Mrs Akamo said whoever may have given the information to the newspaper was “just being mischievous and malicious.”
She claimed that the school management should be commended for its efforts towards addressing indiscipline among the students, saying the unruly students were found out by the school and disciplinary action was taken against them appropriately.
The principal noted that the school, under her watch, has been proactive on the matter of discipline and moral uprightness.
Mrs Akamo, however, blamed the parents for what she described as uncooperative attitudes, saying some parents of students found engaging in nightclubbing and homosexualism refused to even assist the school in disciplining the students.
“One even came to the school here and abused all of us, and was not ashamed of the child’s bad conduct. It is unfortunate,” she said.
The FGC, Ijanikin, Lagos principal, who is the chairman of the forum of principals of federal government colleges in the country, stated that 80 per cent of the narration in the earlier report is untrue.
She noted that the incident happened during the recent sporting event involving federal government colleges and which was held at the Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.
“It was towards the end of November when, on a Monday, my attention was called to the fact that on Sunday evening, when they had bed check, some girls were not in the hostels. And then the morning of Monday, they called their parents to find out if they were at home. And the parents said they were not at home. We then began investigations immediately,” Mrs Akamo was quoted as saying.
“So, on Monday when we were trying to know what had happened since they were not at the hostel that night, one of their friends told us that they were in a hotel. They scaled the fence on the night of Sunday to go to a hotel and we were shocked to find them there. There were five who were caught in the hotel but during interrogation, we found out that there was another girl who also went with them on that Sunday but came back to the school on Monday.”
She said the disciplinary committee of the school met over the matter and suspended the students and reported the same to their parents.
“It is also part of the disciplinary measures that whenever they resumed, they would serve additional punishment before they would be handed over to the guidance and counselling unit where they would be further monitored and managed,” the principal said.
Mrs Akamo added none of the six students involved in the hotel issue was found to be pregnant, saying the matter was addressed within 48 hours when it happened.
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