The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu on Tuesday said there was no police report that supported recent allegations of sexual molestation of students at the Federal Capital Territory School for the Deaf at Kuje, Abuja.
Adamu made the disclosure on Tuesday at press conference in Abuja while presenting a report on the findings of special committee that was set up to probe allegations of abuse of vulnerable minors at the school.
In January last year, an alarm on sexual abuse, cannibalism, sucking of human blood and existence of cult in Kuje area which initiates children into it, was raised by one Dr. Hannatu Usman Ayuba alleging, among others, the sodomisation of her child, Muhammad Imran Kanun, at the School for the Deaf, Kuje, a special school owned and managed by the FCT Administration.Following the public outcry that greeted the allegations, the Education Minister, constituted an investigative committee to ascertain the veracity of the claims that were made.
Presenting the outcome of the committee’s report, Adamu revealed that the petitioner, Dr. Hannatu Ayuba, failed to turn up at the committee’s investigative hearing.
He lamented that every effort to get the petitioner to appear before the committee failed, as Ayuba gave all sorts of excuses in order to stay away from the probe.
The minister explained that a twelve-man team of medical doctors drawn from both public and private practice carried out random medical test and examination on 170 out of the 630 pupils of the school, but found no evidence to substantiate the claims.
“The police and security report did not lend any credence to all these allegations of untoward things taking place in the school or in the Kuje area. No parent reported any missing child or of children dying in the school at least for the past five years. The medical team I had mentioned earlier which comprised 12 doctors from both the public and private sectors, carried out a random medical examination on 170 out of the 630 children of the school and did not find any evidence to support this claim. There was also no evidence of blood extraction found. These allegations are, therefore, unfounded and baseless.
“The Committee sent several invitations both orally and in writing to Dr. Hannatu, the petitioner to appear before it and to bring her son who she alleged was sodomised by an older student of the school in primary five, Sani Isah Filo, who also serves as the school father of Imran. But all efforts proved fruitless. The Committee could not therefore confirm whether or not the boy was molested,” the minister said.
