Rivers Police claimed two students at the Community Secondary School, Nkpolu Oroworukwo, in Mile Diobu, Port Harcourt, were arrested for allegedly engaging in sexual practices in an isolated classroom on school grounds.
The two senior secondary school students were allegedly caught in the act, unaware that they were being filmed on video by one of their classmates.
Their friend secretly recorded the intimate scenario and sent it to a fellow student over WhatsApp, which aroused the attention of some classmates.
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Soon later, the attention of the school’s administration was called to the matter when a male instructor discovered the video on the phone of one of the pupils to whom the film had been transmitted.
According to reports, the school administration then summoned police from the Nkpolu Divisional Police Headquarters in Mile, Port Harcourt, resulting in the arrest of two students involved in the love triangle.
A male student who took the video and another of the same gender to whom the footage was sent were also arrested.
One of the arrested students’ parents, who did not want her name published for fear of being stigmatized, confirmed the incident to our reporter but declined further comment.
Mrs. Patience Nwachukwu, the school’s principal, expressed sadness over the event, stating the affected children were a poor influence and that such behavior must not be tolerated.
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She said, “Those children are a bad influence and we can’t condone that. After now they will have to be expelled from the school.
“I will still have to get to my boss to report and tell them the action I intend to take. But that is what I think is the best, because if they go unpunished tomorrow others will join and nothing will happen.”
Grace Iringe-Koko, the spokesperson for the State Police Command, could not be reached for comment since her mobile phone was not working at the time of filing this story.
Meanwhile, the Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign, a rights organization, claimed it was told of the incident by a parent of one of the jailed pupils.
The group’s national coordinator, Prince Wiro, appealed in a statement made in Port Harcourt on Thursday that the students be cautioned and then freed.
Wiro further stated that the school should rise to the situation by invoking internal processes and punishing the students appropriately.
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He said, “A mother to one of the arrested students informed me of the incident on Wednesday night (November 30).
“I think ordinarily it is a matter the school can handle through their internal disciplinary measures. But if the management of the school in its wisdom decides to hand them over to the police for cautionary measures, it is not out of place.
“However, I would have expected that the police to release all the students after cautioning them, rather than releasing some of the students and holding onto some, from the information at our disposal.”
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