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A school that was
turned into a brothel where hoodlums pay guards to allow them have sex with
their female companions at night has been raided by Task force on Environmental
and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.
During the raid, two
guards at the school, Ilupeju Grammar School, located at Ilupeju in Oshodi,
were arrested and charged to court in connection with their alleged despicable
roles in the matter.
Investigations
revealed that the two guards, 60-year old Mr. Julius Okenla, and 45-year old
Mr. Adebowale Adeloye, were accused of allowing hoodlums to sleep with their
female friends in the school after they had allegedly been paid.
It was gathered that
hoodlums who want to sleep in the school pay between N200 and N300 to the
guards, while those with female companions pay N700 to be allowed to sleep in
the school to have sex.
At the Special Court
in Alausa where the guards were arraigned, they pleaded not guilty to the
charge brought against them and were granted bail in the sum of N50,000 each,
plus two sureties each who must have evidence of three years tax payment.
They were sent to
Ikoyi Prison pending when they will meet the bail conditions.
Taskforce Chairman,
Bayo Sulaiman, a Chief Superintendent of Police, said some of the hoodlums not
only paid money to
the security guards to be allowed to sleep inside the school but also
vandalized the school’s property.
He said school
authorities had been complaining that hoodlums messed up their schools and
excrete on students’ lockers, adding that such things might be happening in
other schools where touts pay money to sleep in them and carry out their
nefarious activities.
Speaking in his
office Thursday, the Principal of Ilupeju Grammar School, Odi-Olowo Local
Council Development Area, Lagos, Otunba Y.O. Bashorun, said he cannot say
categorically that the guards were collecting money from miscreants to sleep
within the school premises since he did not catch them red-handed.
“Could you believe
that we have just two security men as big as this school is? One for morning
and another one for night duty. What can one person do in the midst of
multitude? In fact, we usually pay the good ones among the touts to help assist
them while on duty.
“What we want now is
for the government to come to our aid. This environment is not conducive for
learning. We are surrounded by motor parks and touts. Opposite us is Ilupeju
park, behind us is Ibadan park. They always disturb us with their blaring loud
speakers while soliciting for passengers..
“If you go round the
school, you will see what I am talking about. Touts usually scale the fence to
gain entrance into the premises. Some parts of the wall have even been broken
by these people. If you wait till about 6-7.p.m., you will see them coming in.”
According to him,
“weekend is the worst. You will see them washing their clothes by the school
tap and they will dry it on the school wall. Sometimes if I come to do some
work here on Saturdays, I have to lock myself up in this office because I
don’t want anybody to come and attack me.
“By Monday morning,
the classrooms would have been littered with faeces, urine an all sorts of
dirt. Some danfo (commuter bus) drivers even park their vehicles in this
compound without the consent of the school authorities. What they do is that
they park the buses late in the night and remove them early in the morning.”
Bashorun further
said: “I so much like what happened. It will send a signal to the miscreants
that it is not going to be business as usual in this school premises. The era
of coming here to pass the night and wash their clothes in the school premises
has gone. In fact, some of them have even fled.
“What we want now is
that the state government should come to our rescue and make this environment
conducive for learning. All the students see everyday are different forms of
social vices which is not okay for their learning experience. We need tough,
well trained security personnel and not old men like we used to have before.”
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