The incident occurred on March, this year, when the accused Vice Principal, in Government Day Secondary School, Tunga, Minna, allegedly had sexual intercourse with a 16- year old junior female student of the school.
Mohammed was thereafter arraigned in court on April 4, and has been standing trial on a two-count charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a child, and impregnating a female student at the Magistrate Court 3, Minna.
The accused was remanded in prison custody for three months on the orders of the Magistrate, Fatima Auna after the accused had pleaded not guilty to the charge and applied for bail.
Magistrate Fatima Auna, thereafter granted the accused N1 million bail and said the bail was in line with Sections 35 and 36 of the 1999 constitution, and Sections 341 and 342 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The victim, Miss Faith Galadima, who narrated her ordeal to newsmen, on Tuesday, in Minna disclosed that she gave birth to the baby on October 28, after she was returned to her parents by her guardians in August.
She stated further that during the period of the pregnancy, she and her family did not receive any assistance from the randy Vice Principal, Mallam Mohammed for obvious reasons
She thereby solicited the assistance of the state government to take care of herself and her little baby with the view to enable her continue with her studies.
“I am not happy that I am now a mother at this tender age, I will not allow the incident to scuttle my dreams of becoming a Professional Nurse. I still want to go for further studies after the completion of my Secondary School education because I want to be a Nurse in future,” she said.
Faith also charged young people of her age bracket to be committed to their studies especially the girl child and report to the school authority or their parents of any form of abuses melted to them by any individual or group of persons.
Earlier, Malam Haruna Galadima, a 65-year-old father of the victim, decried the total neglect of had daughter by the accused, saying that the girl did not receive any form of assistance during and after the pregnancy from the accused urged the state government to assist his daughter return back to school and ensure justice for her over the way his daughter’s former Vice Principal sexually abused the young girl.
“When I heard my daughter was impregnated by a vice principal in her school, I regretted sending her to school, because a teacher who was supposed to teach and correct her was the one responsible for her predicament.
“What I want now is for my daughter to be taken care of by the man who put her in a family way, he should take full responsibility for the baby’s needs,” he said.
Also in her reaction, the Director General, Niger State Child Rights Protection Agency, Barrister Mairam Haruna Kolo, said that part of the agency’s demands to the state Ministry of Education was that some parts of the accused’s salaries should be deducted and be given to the victim on monthly basis to carter for her needs.
She said the agency would put an application to the court for a DNA test to be conducted on the baby in order to assist police investigation in the case and the court on passing judgment.
Kolo gave assurance that the agency would ensure justice for the victim and see that she returns back to school.
Meanwhile, a family source of the victim who spoke with newsmen, on the condition of anonymity yesterday in Minna alleged that the accused Vice Principal had been secretly transferred from Government Day Secondary School, Tunga, Minna to an unknown school even while the case against him was still pending in the Court.
Meanwhile, concerted efforts made by our reporter to speak with the Permanent Secretary of the Niger State Ministry of Education on the alleged secret transfer of the accused Vice Principal to another school in the state was not successful.
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