The Ogun State Government and the police
on Sunday disagreed over the delay in police investigation of the
principal of Ajuwon Senior High School, Ajuwon, Rev. Olufunke
Aladeojobi, who allegedly conducted virginity tests on pupils of the
school.
A senior police officer attached to the
Ogun State Police Command, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told
our correspondent on Sunday that the government had yet to hand over
Aladeojobi to them.
He said, “It is amazing that Ogun State
government has yet to hand her (Aladeojobi) over to us despite the fact
that we had an understanding that they would release her to us after
they might have concluded their inquiry into the incident.
“We (the police) are threading softly
because the woman in question is a civil servant and that is why we
followed due process again and wrote a strongly worded letter to
officials of the state government to release her. They have yet to
respond and this development is frustrating our investigation.”
However, the Commissioner for Education,
Science and Technology, Mr. Segun Odubela, who spoke with our
correspondent on the telephone, denied the allegation that the state
government was impeding police investigation.
Odubela, who confirmed that the police wrote them on the issue, said the government had replied the letter.
Odubela said, “The government is not in
any way hindering the work of the police. The police actually wrote us
on this issue and we responded accordingly. The government has finished
its inquiry into the incident and decisions have already being made.
“The phase we are now is to implement
the decisions we made which involves rehabilitating the affected pupils,
meeting with the Parent-Teacher Association of the school and the other
recommendations. In fact we have put the incident behind us. If the
police want her (Aladeojobi), they know where to get her.”
When contacted, the Police Public
Relations Officer of the state, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, said he would not
give an official comment on the issue until police concluded its
investigation.
He said, “The police are working with
all stakeholders involved in the incident and investigation is still
ongoing. The public will be duly informed of the outcome of our findings
and decisions when concluded.
Aladeojobi was said to have on December 10, 2012, carried out virginity test on a group of 10 pupils.
During the test, it was alleged that
Aladeojobi, the school’s nurse, Mrs. M.B. Makinde, and another nurse
whose name could not be ascertained, dipped their fingers into the
pupils’ private parts.
But the matter got out of hand when one of the pupils started bleeding after she had been ‘tested’.
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Is the Government having any facility to hide the woman in? Truely, if the police want her, they know where to find her. They are just making noice jare.
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