Nigerians have taken to social media to call on the authorities to launch a probe into the circumstances surrounding how a 10-year-old student of Chrisland School, Victoria Garden City (VGC), identified as Julian, was allegedly raped, videotaped and posted on Instagram.
A celebrity, Ubi Franklin in a series of tweets on Sunday evening narrated how his friend’s daughter, 10, was suspended by her school, which he initially did not name, after she was “r**ped by fellow students, video tapped and posted on Instagram and the school concealed it for a month”.
He said that the incident that led to the suspension happened when the student represented her school at the World School Games in Dubai. The games were held in March.
The music executive stated that his friend found out “on his own when another parent called his wife and showed his wife the video of his 10 year old daughter being circulated on Instagram.
“I have spent the last 1 hour listening to confessional statements by some teachers and I am begging this should rather be a dream.
The suspended student’s mother, In a video posted on Instagram, said that her daughter, Julian, attends Chrisland School, VGC.
She said that the matter stated one month ago when the school’s headteacher, Mrs Gloria Azike, called to invite her for a chat.
She explained that on getting to the school, she met Azike, one Mrs Kemi, and one other person from the school’s headquarters.
She added that the team informed her that her daughter was caught kissing a boy.
She said that the team further disclosed that when her daughter was questioned, she said she learnt it from a game called “Truth or Dare”.
She said the team advised her to take her daughter’s phone away to prevent a recurrence.
According to her, Mrs Kemi advised her not to inform her husband about the incident.
“Then I didn’t hear anything again, the girl was going (to school) and I thought everything was fine. Not until after two to three weeks that we had that conversation, Mrs Azike, the head teacher, now sent me a link that she wanted us to have a Zoom meeting by 5pm and I said okay.”
She said that in the Zoom meeting, the school management began to beg for forgiveness but did not tell her why.
The victim’s mother said that she learnt about the incident from another parent.
She said that after the family’s attention was drawn to the video, she called Mrs Azike more than 20 times but the call was neither answered nor returned.
The victim’s mother said she learnt from her daughter that a schoolmate who was also on the Dubai trip tricked her into his room, where she was drugged and made to perform a sexual act while one student recorded the whole scene.
She said that Chrisland School had been threatening to kill her daughter if she revealed what happened.
She alleged that the school also sent people to take her daughter for pregnancy test three times without the family’s knowledge.
The victim’s mother called on Nigerians to help her demand justice for her family.
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Meanwhile, a copy of the suspension letter cited by The Herald and signed by Mrs Azike on April 14, 2022, stated that Julian was suspended a major participant in the “truth-or-dare” game which constituted “improper behaviour and misconduct”
However, many Nigerians called on the Lagos State Government to launch an investigation to unravel the truth behind the matter.
A thorough investigation should be carried out on this Chrisland issue . Obviously that’s no rape. But on the school’s part that’s total negligence cuz I don’t think there was any form of supervision on those kids .
— Esca Fini (@tiddybwoy) April 18, 2022
The Chrisland girl says she was drugged…I believe her 💯. There must be proper investigation and Chrisland head teachers and those that took her for test with parents consent must go to jail! Chisland sef must finally go…its enough..
— lethal duchess (@DuchessLethal) April 18, 2022
Down and Chrisland are not alone in the mess that most private schools have become!
If this was a caring nation,a full blown investigation would have been instituted to uncover the mess in all private schools.
But how is that possible when the govt can't even manage its schools.
— ADEWALE (@Wale_A3) April 18, 2022
The negligence is on Chrisland to have allowed such despicable act to happen under their watch and nose.
And the pupils must go through psychological & behavioral counselling, and deep retro-investigation as they ALL have been exposed to things way beyond their age.
— È y i t a y ò 𓃵 (@eyiteeonline) April 18, 2022
Chrisland has shown repeatedly that it is a rogue school and not fit for education license.@followlasg needs to suspend their license and order full investigation into the school activities, that school is operating like a crime syndicate
— AAS (@adequnle) April 18, 2022