The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned a 52-
year-old school teacher, Isaac Ikiabeke, for allegedly
raping a five-year-old pupil in the Ikorodu area of the
state.
PUNCH M etro gathered that Ikiabeke, who is also the
proprietor of the school, Brighter Glory School, located
on Etunrere Street, raped his victim after school hours.
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The victim, five-year-old Pat (pseudonym), told our
correspondent the father of three had allegedly raped
her 10 times.
She said, “He has been doing it for some time. He has
done it more than 10 times. I am not the only one. He
does it with some of us after school hours. I could not
tell anybody because he said if I did he would beat
me.”
The victim’s grandfather explained to our
correspondent that his attention was drawn to the
sexual assault by some of Pat’s classmates.
He said he was shocked, as well as disappointed in
Ikiabeke, whom he regarded as a respectable person.
He said, “Pat and her younger sister stay with me and
they attend the school. I never suspected anything
initially, except that I observed she would be holding
her belly and turning on the bed and when I asked her
what happened, she would say she was having
stomachache.
“It was one of her classmates that told me what the
school owner had been doing to her and I quickly went
to report at the station, after which he was arrested.”
Our correspondent was also told that the matter was
brought to the attention of the Lagos State Office of
the Public Defender.
A police source told PUNCH Metro that the police got
complaints from two victims.
He said a three-year-old pupil, who was equally raped
by the suspect, was in a critical condition in a hospital.
He said, “There were actually two pupils that we were
told he raped. The atrocity had been going on for a
long time before he was arrested.”
Our correspondent was told that Pat had also been
taken to the hospital for treatment.
The police on Monday arraigned Ikiabeke before a Yaba
Chief Magistrates’ Court on one count of unlawful
sexual intercourse.
The charge read, “That you, Isaac Ikiabeke, on June 9,
2015, at about 3pm, at Brighter Glory School, Etunrere
Street, Ikorodu, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District,
did have unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor,
(name withheld) aged five years and thereby
committed an offence punishable under Section 258 (1)
of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.”
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge and
elected summary trial.
He was represented by two counsel – Marcus Imoudu
and Kola Afolayan.
Also in court were A.O. Komolafe and B.N. Ameh of
the OPD, who held brief for the complainant.
Imoudu prayed the court to admit the defendant to bail
in liberal terms.
But the police prosecutor, Cyril Ejiofor, of the State
Department of Criminal Investigation, objected to the
bail application.
He said, “While I agree that bail is at the discretion of
the court, I oppose the bail application of the defence
counsel. He has not given any cogent reason to the
court for which the defendant should be granted bail.
“The charge before the court is punishable by life
imprisonment. And although we don’t want to go into
proof of evidence, I want the court to take cognisance
of the fact that two minors are involved in the
substantive charge.
“This is a vice that is affecting society. I want the
court to look at the interest of the state in granting
bail to the defendant.”
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. A.O. Soladoye, in her ruling,
said the offence was bailable.
She thereafter admitted the defendant to bail in the
sum of N1m with two sureties in like sum.
“One of the sureties must be a school proprietor or
proprietress, while the second surety must be a serving
civil servant of Grade Level 17,” she added.
The case was adjourned till August 10, 2015.

I much rather be a vaseline crew dan a paedophile.....conji na bastard!