Malam Mohammed Mohammed, a Vice Principal who impregnated a female student, Miss Faith Danjuma, has been suspended by the Niger State Ministry of Education. Alhaji Yahaya Garba, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, told newsmen in Minna that the ministry had written to the office of the state Accountant-General after the findings and recommendations of a committee set up by the State’s Secondary School Education Board, demanding the accused to be placed on half salary.
According to him, “An eight-man committee headed by Mrs Zainba Kolo, a Vice Principal in the school, was inaugurated to investigate the allegation against the Vice Principal.The committee was to suggest appropriate measures to be taken against the accused, if the allegation was confirmed to be true, based on the provisions of the public service regulation. The committee came out with the following findings: that the student is pregnant as proved by the laboratory test conducted at Minna General Hospital. That Faith is seven weeks and six days pregnant as at the time of the findings and is expected to deliver Nov. 9, and that the accused was responsible for the pregnancy.”
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