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Nigerian music artist manager, Ubi Ekapong Ofem, popularly known as Ubi Franklin has averred that the Chrisland school boys in an immoral video currently circulating online had confessed to raping the 11-year-old school girl involved in the act.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Franklin stated this while stressing that Chrisland was trying to skew the narrative that the 11-year-old was not raped.
Sharing his own side of the story, according a report he received from the girl’s father, Franklin wrote:
“Events of my friends call yesterday. He said his daughter had been raped. I was very shocked. I had to quickly go for a meeting because I hadn’t been in Lagos for a while and there were matters that required my immediate attention.
“I hurriedly left from there to my friend’s house and arrived at about 12:30am. When I got there, they family was in despair I was moved to tears because of the overwhelming emotions.
“Here is the background story. This man paid for his little girl to go on this trip to Dubai and paid extra in tips for people to look after her. He allowed his daughter to go on the trip because she is good at sports and he wanted the best for her.
“The school was entrusted with the welfare of the children. Both sexes were separated and housed in different rooms.
“According to the girl, they went to have dinner when some other male students took her phone’s charger in jest and told her to come for it.
“She initially didn’t want to go but because her phone was dying, she did. When she got to their rooms, they told her to go to the bathroom to pick up her charger. She went in and found herself surrounded by the boys who fed her certain substances to drink and smoke before she blacked out. A ten-year-old girl.
“The students made a tape which I saw. In it, they told the girl to take turns on them. The school is trying to create the narrative that the girl was the one “on top of them”.
“The boys have confessed but the school is trying to play down the confession. The school engaged in foul play by not contacting her parents the moment they got back in the country and have a meeting with the parents.
“Because even if the narrative that the girl consented to it was true, the fact remains that there was a recording made against her will. The video was also posted which counts as child pornography.
“Rather, the school called the mother and told her that her daughter had kissed a boy while they were on the trip. They asked the mother to check the daughter’s phone to make sure there was nothing on it.
“They also asked the mother to not inform the girl’s father, After the first meeting they had with her, the school later requested for a zoom meeting fearing the girl had informed her mother about the incident despite their threats.
“The mother went for a Mother’s Day celebration at school during which the school continued to intimidate the girl, forbidding her from telling her mother about what had transpired.
“The school took the girl for a pregnancy test without her parents’ consent which was worrisome because there’s a possibility that had it been positive, the school might have decided to terminate the pregnancy.
“They ended up having the scheduled zoom meeting with the mother and during which they still neglected to inform her about the incident. A fellow parent called and showed the mother the video of her daughter which had been in circulation for over a month.
“The mother then tried to reach the school for a statement but failed to respond to her calls. Following which the school then sent the girl a letter of suspension.
“The school needs to take responsibility for the incident because they neglected to inform the parents for over a month which points to the fact there is something fishy.
“There needs to be an investigation of how the students got access to drugs and why the school allowed unsupervised access between boys and girls going to each other’s room.
“According to the girl, when the incident happened, she initially tried to report to her teachers and knocked on their doors but got no response which is indicative of a negligence of duty.
“If this had been addressed in a timely manner the incident might not have escalated to this extent and could have been curtailed. I was terribly distressed seeing my friend so distraught. I can only pray the school does right for the sake of this family”.
However, Franklin has stated that he will no longer comment on the matter and that he was looking forward to an official statement from the school and the parents of the Chrisland school girl.
Meanwhile, TNG reports the Lagos State Government and the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) have taken up the case.