A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Benin City has sentenced the proprietor of Calvary Crown Academy, Paul Okugbowa, to six months in prison for calling the mother of a pupil in his school a prostitute.
The magistrate, Caroline Oghuma, also sentenced three teachers of the school to various terms in prison for negligence.
The convicts were arraigned on charges contrary to Sections 167(2), 412, 270, 412 and 267 of the Criminal Laws of Edo 2022.
Delivering judgment at the resumed hearing yesterday, Magistrate Oghuma, however, gave the proprietor a fine option of N100,000.
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The three teachers, Blessing Osarodion, Egharevba Esosa, and Isioma Nimen, were charged with negligence and abandonment of two pupils in their care.
Osarodion and Esosa were sentenced to one year imprisonment or a fine option of N100,000 on each of the two count-charge bothering on negligence, leading to the injury of a 6-year-old pupil, Salma Aigbudu.
The court also convicted Nimen to three months imprisonment or a fine of N50,000 for unlawfully abandoning another pupil, Zuri Aigbudu.
According to the charge sheet, Okugbowa committed the offence on September 8, 2023 at the AIG Zone 5 headquarters in Benin, where he conducted himself in a manner likely to cause breach of peace.
He was said to have publicly called Mrs Blessing Aigbudu, the mother of the two pupils, a prostitute in the presence of her husband and bystanders to the hearing of the public.
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