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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Armed man molests eight female pupils

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An armed man en­tered the Ma­yaro Gov­ern­ment School com­pound on Mon­day and mo­lest­ed eight fe­male pupils.Po­lice said the man, armed with a knife, en­tered the school's play­ground dur­ing the lunchtime pe­ri­od. He then re­port­ed­ly ap­proached the stu­dents, threat­ened them, then in­ap­pro­pri­ate­ly touched them in sen­si­tive ar­eas. The stu­dents ranged in ages from sev­en to nine.The trau­ma­tised pupils re­port­ed the in­ci­dent to a teacher who then in­formed the school's prin­ci­pal.

Par­ents were called in and the eight were tak­en to the Ma­yaro Po­lice Sta­tion, which is oblique­ly op­po­site the school. The pupils were then sent for med­ical ex­am­i­na­tion at the Ma­yaro Health Fa­cil­i­ty.Po­lice were still search­ing for the sus­pect last night. The man was thought to be a Cepep em­ploy­ee but in­ves­ti­ga­tors are yet to con­firm that.An­gry par­ents are now de­mand­ing that se­cu­ri­ty at the school be beefed up and are con­tem­plat­ing protest ac­tion against the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and prin­ci­pal.

Par­ents said Cepep work­ers are al­lowed on the com­pound to do work dur­ing school hours and they are now call­ing for this to be stopped. Par­ents said with all the re­ports of crime against chil­dren, they hoped the mat­ter was not swept un­der the car­pet.


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