By Olaitan Ibrahim
Two teachers identified as Gbenga Ajibola (43) and Olaofe Ayodele (52) were sentenced to 44 years imprisonment without option of fine on Tuesday for over sexual intercourse with two students of the school they were teaching in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State.
They were first arraigned before Justice Adeniyi Familoni of Ekiti State High Court on March 2, 2022 on a three count charge bordering on rape and abuse of office.
In the course of the trial, the Prosecution, Mr Kunle-Shina Adeyemi, told the court that the defendants sometimes in Nov, 2019 in Ado-Ekiti raped the students who were 17 and 15 years respectively in contravention of Section 31(2) of the Childs Right Law, Cap. C7, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012.
In her testimony before the Court, one of the victims said that one of the convicts, Ajibola was her Computer teacher and always disturbing her while in class.
“On this fateful day, he told me to be in mufti and 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, but before they came, one of my classmates also met me there, he told me that Mr Olaofe asked her to wait here for him.
“When they came, we all left for a hotel, around 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, when I could no more bear it, I narrated what happened to my mother who later took the matter up,” she narrated.