Some students of the Federal Government College, Ijanikin, Lagos State have recently been caught engaging in sex romp in hotels where they lodged their partners.
The students, aged between 14 and 17, are said to be 12, seven of them male; all in boarding houses. But they often scaled their school’s fence to escape into the hotels for days.
According to investigation by The PUNCH, the act has been on for about three sessions, including the first term, which ended less than a month ago.
It was learnt that for more than three sessions, including the just concluded first term, the students left school unnoticed, until one of them impregrated one of the five girls.
The students are also believed to have engaged in threesomes and heavy use of drugs.
“There is a possibility that some staff are also involved in the whole atrocities because how will a secondary school student leave the school environment for days without anyone noticing? Some of the staff are benefiting from it somehow”, a source said.
Some parents blamed the school management for negligence, and alleged that there is a plot to cover up the scandal.
A parent said: “This is happening because of the negligence of the principal and the housemasters and mistress. If something like that goes hidden, my children are in that school; they can become victims”.
Another parent said the school failed in its duty to protect students in boarding houses.
He said: The management needs to intensify efforts at cleansing the school because these bad eggs will corrupt our children. Something urgent needs to be done in ensuring that discipline is restored.”
The Chairman of the school’s Parents-Teachers Association, Mr Olusola Tokede confirmed that some students absconded from the school.
He, however, refuted claims that the school was trying to cover up the incident.
Tokede said that the students were caught by the school management at hotels on two different occasions after noticing their absence, adding that some of the students involved were expelled, while others were suspended.
The PTA chairman also said that the school had engaged the service of local security guards to ensure the environment was being monitored.
He said: “We were the ones who told the parents about it on the platform (WhatsApp). I don’t know why some parents are trying to be mischievous by saying the school did not do anything about it.
“If parents failed to train their children, they will pollute others. Can you imagine a child between ages 15 and 16 having up to N1 million in her account? They went to do twosome: two girls, one boy. They were caught before the end of last session. You can imagine that a 15-year-old that should be a virgin is already engaging in immoral activities. They are rotten from their various homes and we are working hard to stop them from polluting others.
“It is not correct to say we have not done anything. We are trying, but you know that no matter what we are doing if a child is not well trained at home, he will always come up with such acts. We have sent out warnings that I will not spare anybody; it is really an unfortunate situation.
“One of the students was expelled because she was pregnant. We also expelled the boy that impregnated her. Some of them that were caught were also suspended, but they will be allowed to come back to write the exam. Everything we are doing, we are trying to marry everything together being a parent and a teacher”.
Efforts to get the school proved abortive as the phone number attached to its Facebook page did not connect.
A teacher in the school, who said he was not around when the incident happened, refused to release the contact of the principal, Mrs Tofunmi Akamo.
The PTA chairman, when asked to assist, said the principal was outside the country and was unreachable.