The EKITI STATE TEACHING SERVICE COMMISSION has sacked three secondary schools teachers who allegedly had canal knowledge of their female pupils.
MR BABATUNDE ABEGUNDE, chairman of EKITI STATE TEACHING SERVICE COMMISSION made this known to journalists in ADO EKITI the State capital.
According to ABEGUNDE the decision was reached at the board’s emergency plenary held in ADO-EKITI on Friday.
The police had on Wednesday arrested the teachers following a petition filed by an activist alleging sexual molestation of secondary school pupils.
He said the dismissal was consequent on the report of the Commission’s Disciplinary Committee after thorough investigation.
ABEGUNDE said the board dismissed the erring teachers for sexual violence, saying the act amounted to gross misconduct, unbecoming of those entrusted with the responsibility of moulding the destiny of the younger ones.
The Chairman explained that the dismissal was in line with the Public Service Rules and the State Teachers’ Manual, stressing the Commission followed due process as laid down by extant rules to avoid miscarriage of justice in arriving at its decision.
The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, MR. WALE FAPOHUNDA, had earlier raised the alarm over incessant cases of alleged rape in many of the secondary schools across the state.
