The Punch reported this morning that the principal at Ajuwon Senior High School, Ajuwon, Ifo Local Government Area, Ogun State, Rev. Olufunke Oladeojobi, has been questioned by the police for conducting virginity tests on the pupils.
The test, carried out on Monday last week was done without the consent of the parents/guardians of the pupils of the female Senior Secondary School 1 pupils.
During the test, it was alleged that the principal and the nurse touched the students in their private parts and inserted fingers into them.
fter the exercise, which took place at the principal’s office, each of the pupils was given an exercise book.
A 15-year-old pupil, said the principal came into the classroom on the day and announced that all female SSS 1 pupils should converge on the assembly ground asking that those who had yet to lose their virginity should stand apart.
She said, “We are over 600 in SSS 1 but only about 300 of us are females. Those of us that are virgins are 38 and we were matched into the principal’s office with the assistance of members of staff. The principal later addressed us and threatened that any pupil who fails the test would have her name written in the school’s black book and would be suspended.”
The student said she became apprehensive when everyone who emerged from the office where the test was being carried out came out with a sad and disgusting look.
She said, “When my class captain emerged from the room, I asked her why anyone that came out of the office looked depressed? I was held spell bound when she told me that the principal and the nurse dipped their fingers in turns into their private parts, adding that she had started bleeding as a result of the penetration. Just as I was asking further questions from her, the principal dashed out of her office and announced that she had discovered one student who had lost her virginity out of the 10 students that were examined. She wrote her name on one of the notice boards in her office and ordered the rest of us to return to our various classes. Two of my friends who had similar experiences burst into tears as they narrated what happened.”
Another student said the principal was happy that she was able to “catch a promiscuous pupil” as she felt proud to discuss it on the assembly ground the next day.
However parents of the 10 pupils stormed the school in protest against the development and the pupils rebelled against Oladeojobi last Wednesday as they did a sit-in on the assembly ground protesting and demanding that she should be redeployed from the school.
The parents got the police involved and said that the principal confessed that she conducted virginity tests on the pupils and that ‘she was trying to help them.’ However they said she was not detained because of the consideration that she was a civil servant.
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