The Lagos State Police Command says it has extended invites to the administration of Chrisland Schools, parents and the pupils allegedly involved in sexual acts during a academy trip to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, stated this during a telephone interview with our pressman on Tuesday.
He said, “ All the parties have been invited to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba. The parties include the academy authorities, parents and their children.
“ Nobody has reported yet, but we're in touch with them and they've all given us a reasonable date and time that they will come. Whatever happens after their assignation will determine the coming line of action.”
A source, still, revealed to our pressman that all the parties would report at the SCIID on Wednesday.
OFOFOGIST had reported that the pupils, including a 10- year-old girl, were among the 76 pupils that represented the academy during the World School Games in Dubai which held between March 8 and 14, 2022.
During the event, the 10- year-old girl was reportedly involved in sexual acts which were recorded by another pupil.
The videotape clip went viral on Twitter on Monday.
The mama of the girl was heard in another recorded clip criminating the academy of cover-up and taking her daughter for a gestation test without maternal concurrence.
The state government also shut down all Chrisland Seminaries in the state, as the police commenced disquisition into the matter.
Chrisland Schools, in a statement by a member of its premonitory board, Akin Fadeyi, late Monday, denied the rape allegation, adding that the academy didn't take the child for any gestation test.
Replying to the incident, a elderly counsel, Jiti Ogunye, blamed the Lagos State Government for taking a knee- jack approach to similar issues.
He said, “ Too frequently, the government reacts with a knee- jack approach. Knee- jack in the sense that it's when commodity happens that it'll say it's closing down the academy.
“ It closed down the academy, so what happens to the right to education of other pupils in the academy? What happed to their right to learn in academy? What happed to the plutocrat parents paid?
“ So, it isn't just about closing down the academy; that's reactive; what the government should be doing is to spark the applicable agencies/ departments in the ministry of education, the administrators to work. So, this is the time for the government to look inward.
“ How numerous administrators do they've that go round seminaries on a daily/ yearly base to ask these children how they're stewing and what's going on in that academy? I suspect that they don’t.”
Meanwhile, the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered a review of police help and functional means deployment to seminaries and sodalities in the country.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement on Tuesday, said the order was to insure seminaries were safe and secure for scholars across the country.
Adejobi said the review was a result of some insulated incidents reported in some seminaries in the country.