₦airaland Forum

14th February 2023
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The Lagos State High Court, Ikeja. Photo: File

By
Onozure Dania

A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Monday, sentenced a 41-year-old teacher of the Mind Builders Nursery and Primary School, Omole Phase 11, Ikeja, Chukwu Ndubuisi, to life imprisonment for raping a six-year-old girl on the school premises.

Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya, who sentenced Ndubuisi, held that the prosecution was able to prove the charge of defilement against the defendant.

The convict committed the offence in June 2016.

Ndubuisi, who was a part-time art teacher at the school, was arraigned on October 4, 2016, at an Ogudu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, on a charge of forceful penetration to which he pleaded not guilty.

Justice Olufunke Sule-Amzat, who was a Magistrate when Ndubusi was arraigned, granted him bail in the sum of N100,000 with two verifiable sureties that must be blood relations with evidence of gainful employment.

The case was later assigned to Justice Ogunsanya after the legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecution came out.

During the trial, the prosecution called 13 witnesses while the defendant called nine witnesses.


Delivering the judgment, Justice Ogunsanya, cited several authorities, and held that the prosecution proved its case against the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt.

The judge held,” The fact, circumstances, and quality of evidence against the defendant was compelling. The first time the victim told her mother of her experience was when she (the mother) was discussing the case of a seven-year-old girl that was defiled and killed which went viral.

“The account of the victim and that of her mother was uncontroverted, corroborated each other, and they gave a good account of the sexual assault.”

Ogunsanya noted that the defendant usually sent the victim’s friend to call her and that the first time the defendant defiled her was in the female toilet.

The judge said that the second time the defendant defiled the victim was in the art room of the school.

She said, “The victim told the court that sometimes, her teacher (defendant) asked her to remove her uniform and put his ‘bumbum’ into her ‘bum bum’.

“At another time, he called her into the art room, he put her on the table, parted her panties, and put his thing into my thing. She said the victim told the court that when the defendant is finished, he would clean up the victim with water.”


The court said the defendant had unhindered access to the child and defiled her several times.

Justice Ogunsanya expunged the evidence of two prosecution witnesses who were medical doctors for being contradictory, pointing out that they did not come as expert witnesses.

She also dismissed the submission by the defence witnesses that the incident was not recorded on the school’s CCTV.

Ogunsanya upheld the result of the test conducted at the Mirabel Centre which showed that the victim had torn hymen and reddish vulva and that there was evidence of forceful penetration.

The judge, therefore, convicted the defendant as charged.

Counsel to the defendant, Olagunju pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy saying that no case of improper behaviour had ever been brought against the defendant nor had he ever had any case at any police station until this case.

But the state prosecutor, Kareem Jubril, argued that the law under which the defendant was charged did not give the court any discretion.


He urged the court to impose the mandatory sentence stipulated in the law.

Justice Ogunsanya subsequently sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment.

She said, “The defendant (Ndubuisi) is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment for the defilement of a child.”

Tho that's a horrible thing

JoeRizzla:
Tho that's horrible thing to do but damn life prisonment is just too much.

what do you suggest would be better than a life sentence which prevents him from coming back into society where he can simply relocate and commit the same crime on another female... maybe your sister or daughter.

Please enlighten us.

Ndubuisi u take mkpuru mm!ri ne

Dis one don dey behave like aboki

CHUKWU NDOBO-ISI they even develop puss*join their wickedness Smash the pig flatthead

gays will defile his a$$hole too in jail 🥴

For the first time in the history of Nigeria, justice is served.

The sentence is not bad at all but a more stringent sent would have been better

The newer the days, the more the crimes, the stricter the laws and homosapiens never learnt to desist from evil.

Love this, this is just the judgment they need.

JoeRizzla:
Tho that's horrible thing to do but damn life prisonment is just too much.

A 41 years old man f***d a 6 years old girl, he was giving the kind of justice he deserve, yet, you're saying is too much, shey you dey whine me ni? 😕😕😕

I doubt you would have said this kin thing If the girl nah your pikin, younger sister or niece.

JoeRizzla:
Tho that's horrible thing to do but damn life prisonment is just too much.

Too slap you dey hungry me.

The mofo has left a life long stigma and memory on that little girl.

Only better alternative to life imprisonment is for him to be killed everyday for the rest of his life.

But we know that's not possible.

So life imprisonment it is, should have come mandatory rape of the guy in prison thrice everyday for the rest of his life.

JoeRizzla:
Tho that's a horrible thing

You are luckily the people that quoted you did not catch physically... I suspect you.