By Nicholas Ojo
The Kastina State Police Command says it has arrested a private school teacher, identified as Umar Isah, for sexually harassing five female students in his class.
Quest Times gathered that the suspect assaulted the children, while repeatedly luring them into the toilet to fondle with their private parts.
The spokesman of the Command, SP Gambo Isah, while confirming the incident in a statement signed on Friday, said that the suspect who was paraded at the State headquarters on Friday, admitted to committing the crime while giving his confessional statement.
He explained that their investigations revealed that the suspect has done that to countless children in his class.
The statement reads; “On the 10/11/2022 at about 1000hrs, the following persons namely Hussaina Rabe, Basira Umar, Khalid Ibrahim and Zainab Ibrahim all of Shargalle village, Dutsi LGA of Katsina State, jointly reported at Dutsi Division against one Umar Isah, ‘M’, aged 25yrs of Mashi LGA, a classroom teacher, that on different dates and time, the suspect took advantage of their daughters (names withheld) and lured them into the school’s toilet and inserted his finger into their private parts.
“In the course of investigation, suspect confessed to the commission of the offence. Investigation is ongoing.”
Meanwhile, the suspect, during an interview with Journalists said; “Inside the class is like a parlour with a small room. So, I take them inside the small room one after the other, remove their hijab and fondle with their private parts.”
When quizzed if he was under a spell to do that, the suspect said: “No. I am not instructed by any herbalist or Mallam to do so. I just find myself doing it.”