The police at the ‘B’ Division Police Station, Asaba, Delta State, have arrested an assistant headmistress of a Primary School in Asaba (Name withheld), for allegedly stolen toiletries and bathing soaps.
One of the police investigating officers, who did not want her name in print, said the school headmistress (names withheld) had been indulging in shady deals of collecting toiletries and bathing soap from her unsuspecting students especially during examination periods before nemesis caught up with her.
She was said to have been arrested upon a petition written by a parent of one of the students who deliberately refused to provide toiletries and soap during the on-going examination; an act the suspect allegedly flogged the disobeying student and inflicted several injuries on him.
Sources said that the suspect had been indulging in alleged extortion and illegal collection of money from the students since she was promoted to the position of assistant headmistress in the last few months and in most cases, override the decisions of the headmistress to implement her own.
Apart from her alleged itching palms, insiders said that she was in 2003, arrested for a similar offence by the police at the state CID but for high powered authorities that came to her rescue.
Confirming the arrest of the school teacher, Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Celestina Kalu, said the suspect was arrested on Tuesday in the school after the police had received the petition adding that upon interrogation, she confessed to the crime saying that she would be charged to court on completion of investigation.
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