Newsone reports that many social media users are upset at the news coming out of Chrisland School in Victoria Island Garden City (VGC), Lagos State, Nigeria’s commercial city, after Ubi Franklin, a music executive raised the alarm of a possible r*pe of a 10-year-old girl.
This online news platform understands that the 10-year-old student in the Chrisland School video was on April 14 suspended by the school authorities after she engaged in s*xual intercourse with her co-learners.
The information obtained by Newsone Naija reveals that the Chrisland School video incident happened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), during the World School Games in March.
Ubi Franklin narrated in a now-viral Instagram post, how his friend’s 10-year-old daughter was r*ped during a school competition in Dubai and later suspended from the school, and the school involved is Chrisland Schools.
Newsone reports that Chrisland Schools is a conglomerate of schools providing education for Nursery, Primary and Secondary School students from across Nigeria, but with facilities situated in Lagos and Abuja.
Ubi Franklin on his Twitter page @ubifranklin1 revealed that the parents found out after another parent in the school alerted them. The girl was selected to represent her school at the World School Games in Dubai when the incident happened; he said.
The music manager said, “Just got off the phone with a friend of mine, his 10-year-old daughter was selected to represent her school at the World School Games in Dubai. His daughter was r*ped by fellow students, video tapped and posted on Instagram, and the school concealed it for a month”.
Ubi added, “He found out (referring to his friend) on his own when another parent called his wife and showed his wife the video of his 10-year-old daughter being circulated on Instagram in what has now been tagged as the Chrisland school video saga by Netizens.
“I have spent the last one hour listening to confessional statements by some teachers, and I am begging.
“UPDATE ON MY PREVIOUS POST”, Ubi continued, “This school took the girl from her parents that they wanted to conduct a Covid test and the school rather took the girl for a pregnancy test. As we speak, the girl has been SUSPENDED from the school. Some things don’t make sense at all”.
Shortly after Ubi Franklin’s post on the Chrisland School Video incident, Nigerians on social media started name-dropping Chrisland school Lagos, then also followed a media statement from Chrisland explaining what had transpired.
Pupils from the school were in Dubai in March to participate in the World School Games between March 10- 13, 2022. But in the letter dated, April 14, 2022, the letter to the girl’s parents obtained by this Newspaper, the school authorities alleged that the girl took part in what was referred to as “improper behavior”.
According to the school located in Victoria Island Lagos, she took part in a truth or dare game and “consequently, (name redacted) is hereby placed on indefinite suspension until you as the parent ensure that she is punished, adequately counselled and rehabilitated”.
In the seven-paragraph letter signed by the Principal Mrs. Azike, it says “In line with our core values centered on discipline, Chrisland schools have zero tolerance for any improper behaviour or misconduct,”.
With no mention of r*pe, the school added that other students who took part in the games had been suspended and that the girl and her parents did not take cooperate in the investigation.
The mother of the pupil in the Chrisland School video saga in a video shared by Ubi Franklin on Instagram narrates her encounter with the school, she said the school had contacted her to inform her about a kissing game involving her daughter under their care. She begged and appealed to Nigerians to intervene as the institution had been interrogating her daughter without her knowledge.
“They’ve been threatening my daughter, that if she speaks out they’re going to kill her, that it is a men’s world, that she should keep quiet that she shouldn’t disclose to me”, the mother said the daughter had been “dying in silence”.
“They took her to go and do pregnancy test without me knowing”, she added.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Government led by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has shut down all branches of Chrisland schools in the Southwest state over Chrisland school viral video of a pupil of the school.
Chrisland Schools
The statement reads in parts: “The attention of the Lagos State Government has been drawn to the alleged sexual violence case involving students of Chrisland school which occurred in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
“This is to reassure members of the public of the State Government’s commitment to safety and child protection, especially in ensuring that all child-centered institutions within the state, formulate and implement policies and systems that are compliant with the Executive Order (NO.EO/AA08 of 2016), Lagos State Safeguarding and Child Protection Program.
“We also use this medium to remind the general public that any person who engages in any visual depiction of s*xually explicit conduct involving a child, commits an offence and is liable to custodial sentence of fourteen (14) years. This includes “producing, distributing, receiving, or possessing an image of child pornography”.
“In the meantime, all Chrisland schools within Lagos State are hereby closed, pending further investigations.”