The Niger State Ministry of Education
has suspended Malam Mohammed Mohammed, a Vice Principal who impregnated a
female student, Miss Faith Danjuma, Alhaji Yahaya Garba, the Permanent
Secretary of the Ministry, has said.
Garba told newsmen in Minna that the ministry had written to the
office of the state Accountant-General after the findings and recommendations
of a committee set up by the State’s Secondary School Education Board, demanding
the accused to be placed on half salary.
According to him, after the ministry received a report on March
28 that the accused had impregnated a JSS 3 student, the ministry directed the
board to set up a disciplinary committee within the school. “An eight-man
committee headed by Mrs Zainba Kolo, a Vice Principal in the school, was
inaugurated to investigate the allegation against the Vice Principal. “The
committee was to suggest appropriate measures to be taken against the accused,
if the allegation was confirmed to be true, based on the provisions of the
public service regulation.
“The committee came out with the
following findings: that the student is pregnant as proved by the laboratory
test conducted at Minna General Hospital.
“That Faith is seven weeks and six days pregnant as at the time
of the findings and is expected to deliver Nov. 9, and that the accused was
responsible for the pregnancy.”
Garba explained that the committee recommended that the accused
be compelled to take responsibility of the child and the mother.
He added that the committee also recommended that the accused
should be transferred to a male school after the investigation and if not found
guilty.
The permanent secretary disclosed that another committee headed
by Mrs Eunice Gana was set up within the board on March 30, to further
investigate the matter.
He said that the committee’s findings showed that the Vice
Principal admitted impregnating the student, a case of professional misconduct
and that the pregnancy was confirmed from the medical report issued by a
General Hospital.
He further said that the school’s disciplinary report was in
line with findings of the board.
Garba noted that the statutory report of the committee
recommended that the Vice Principal should be suspended with immediate effect
and placed on half salary, pending the determination of the case.
He added that another Vice Principal was appointed to take over
the accused duties.
“The committee also recommended for the victim to be transferred
to another school and the ministry immediately acted on the recommendation.
“The recommendation was forwarded to the state Civil Service
Commission and the Ministry of Finance was directed to place the accused on
half salary pending the termination of the case.
“The accused has been on suspension till date and was never
promoted,’’ he explained.
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