“Teacher and pregnant 12 year-old schoolgirl, are lovers. He didn’t rape her” — NUT Chairman

Comrade Rodney Nathan (pictured), the chairman of
the #Adamawa State chapter of the Nigeria Union of
Teachers (NUT), has refuted reports that a teacher
raped a 12-year-old schoolgirl in Namtari.
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Tribune Online reports that Nathan said the claims
made by Adamawa Police command, Nigerian
Security and Civil Defence Corps ( # NSCDC ), were
premature, as proper investigations were not carried
out before going to the press.
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Comrade Rodney revealed that the relationship
between the teacher and the schoolgirl was a
known one to the parents of the girl and the society
(Namtari) at large.
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He said that as of the time Mr Yusuf was arrested,
the keys to his room were with the girl in question,
which he said suggested that the duo were
consciously engaged in a mutual relationship.
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However, while condemning rape as a crime, he
vowed to decisively deal with any teacher found in
the act.
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The NUT chairman contended that “one cannot call
a mutual relationship between a schoolgirl and her
teacher who are mutually in love a rape case.”
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He said from the report submitted by a panel of
enquiry set up by NUT to investigate the matter, it
became known that the duo had been lovers for at
least six months.
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Also, the NUT chairman the investigation
committee’s report revealed that the schoolgirl “is
carrying a six-month pregnancy, an indication that a
long term relationship had existed between the
teacher and the schoolgirl.”