Ekiti teachers sentenced to 44 years in prison for raping students
Ado-Ekiti High Court has sentenced Gbenga Ajibola (43) and Olaofe Ayodele (52) to a joint term of 44 years imprisonment for the rape of two female students aged 15 and 17 years.
Delivering the verdict on Tuesday, Justice Adeniyi Familoni chose a custodial sentence over an option of a fine.
The two were arraigned on a three-count charge of rape at the abuse of office on March 2, 2022.
The prosecution, who led by Kunle-Shina Adeyemi, revealed the crimes occurred in November 2019 in Ado Ekiti.
It happened that the two victims whose identities are not disclosed by the school that employed the convicts as teachers were also students therein.
These offenses are punishable under Section 31(2) of the Child’s Right Law, Cap. C7, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012, according to the prosecution.
This court heard how the defendants allegedly lured the minors into a hotel in Ado Ekiti, Oke-Ila area where they sexually assaulted them.
The judgment by Naija eyes says that the action perpetrated by both defendants was done with a clear mind, ignoring conscience, and leaving victims behind with a reckless abandon.
“They deserve severe penal sanctions for their misdeeds to serve as a warning and deterrent to others who may consider following in their footsteps,” he said.
Justice Familoni sentenced the two defendants, Ajibola Gbenga and Olaofe Ayodele, to 20 years of incarceration each without an option to fine on count one and two years each without an option to fine on count two.
However, he ruled that the sentences, totaling 44 years, would run concurrently.
In another development, fifty-two persons have been arraigned before an Ekiti State Magistrate’s Court, Ado Ekiti District, on charges of violating state environmental health and other sanitation laws.
A statement from the State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources made available in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday revealed that “the suspects were charged to court for some alleged violations of the environmental health and sanitation laws of Ekiti State during that Saturday’s environmental sanitation exercise.”
Further, the Magistrate, Olubunmi Bamidele, has convicted 37 of the suspects and sentenced them to one-month imprisonment each.
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