The
Niger State Ministry of Education has suspended Mohammed Mohammed, a Vice
Principal who reportedly impregnated a female student, Faith Danjuma, the
permanent secretary, Yahaya Garba, has said.
Mr. Garba told journalists 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,” he said.
“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.”
Mr. Garba explained that the committee
recommended that the accused be compelled to take responsibility of the child
and the mother.
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