The management of Great Kezino Nursery and Main School, Ikorodu, Lagos, has actually refuted claims made in a viral TikTok video by a previous instructor, Rukayat Tobiloba, who declared that a court plans to jail her over a defilement case.
The school clarified that Tobiloba was not charged with defilement but was arraigned along with another team member for supposed negligence following a 2021 occurrence involving two nursery pupils.
In the widely flowed video, Tobiloba denied wrongdoing and claimed she was being unjustly targeted. The video, which gained traction on social networks, was likewise aired on Arise television on March 7, 2026, where she appealed to Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to intervene in the matter.
Responding to the development, the school management stated the story being distributed by the previous instructor did not properly reflect the realities of the case.
Consulting with journalists, the Head Instructor of the school, Mrs Toyin Edaolaropin, stated examinations carried out after the occurrence led to the arraignment of Tobiloba and an assistant teacher, Mrs Rukayat Lawal, for carelessness.
Edaolaropin described that Tobiloba was utilized as a Nursery One class teacher on September 13, 2021, while Lawal served as the assistant teacher in the very same class.
According to her, a student identified as Victim A was registered in the class on September 20, 2021, bringing the variety of students in the class to about 15.
She said the event emerged on October 26, 2021, after the student had actually been dropped off in your home by the school bus.
“Victim A was taken home on the school bus after closing hours and turned over to her dad at about 4:30 p.m. Later on that night, the student’s mom presumably got in touch with the instructor, claiming that her child wept while bathing and alleged that a male schoolmate, Victim B, had placed a pencil into her personal part during school hours,” Edaolaropin said.
She stated the school immediately declined the accusation, insisting that no such event took place while the child was under the school’s supervision.
“The following early morning, the instructor checked out the pupil’s home, where the father supposedly rejected the mother’s account of the occurrence,” she added.
The head instructor stated the matter intensified later that day when the moms and dads got to the school with officers from the Imota Police headquarters and demanded that the alleged male classmate be produced.
According to her, the authorities were shocked to discover that the implicated pupil had to do with three years old.
She stated the cops directed school authorities to report to the station for investigation and subsequently moved the case to another development for more queries.
“Both the class instructor and the assistant teacher were later arraigned for negligence,” Edaolaropin stated.
She kept in mind that the case is still pending in court and is currently waiting for an evaluation of legal guidance from the office of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice.
Edaolaropin likewise preserved that the school initially supported Tobiloba throughout the early phases of the case and even engaged an attorney to represent her.
“Contrary to Tobiloba’s numerous defamatory stories on both social and traditional media, the school stood firmly with her from the start of her experience,” she said.
According to her, the school employed a legal representative who promptly protected bail for the instructor to avoid her from being remanded in custody.
“Team member who had actually never known her before even stood as guarantors,” she added.
She said Tobiloba had dealt with the school for only six weeks before the event took place and left the school about two weeks after returning from the police head office.
“She later on moved to a neighbouring school, but we continued to support her. We spent considerable quantities on lawsuits for nearly 4 years due to the fact that we believed nothing took place to the supposed victim while in the school’s custody,” she stated.
The head teacher added that the school also offered Tobiloba’s feeding, transport and general well-being whenever she appeared in court.
“On each court day, the school catered for her feeding, transport and basic wellness, and she was never alone as a minimum of four people accompanied her to court at the school’s expenditure,” she said.
Edaolaropin further divulged that the assistant teacher associated with the case was released by the court after about a year of litigation.
She stated the school’s lawyer later on composed to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions asking for a review of the report indicting Tobiloba, while the teacher also assisted in a committee hearing at the Lagos State House of Assembly.
However, the head instructor declared that Tobiloba later on ended up being reluctant to go to court procedures.
“She last appeared in court on November 10, 2023, after which the case was adjourned to March 5, 2024,” she said.
According to her, the teacher later on informed the school that she was pregnant, triggering the court to adjourn the matter to August 5, 2024.
Edaolaropin stated that when she got in touch with Tobiloba on July 22, 2024, to remind her of the court date, the teacher supposedly stated she had actually transferred to Ibadan and was no longer thinking about the case.
“She communicated her loss of interest in the matter in a message sent to me, mentioning that she had moved to Ibadan and would not be offered for additional court procedures,” she said.
She added that the school’s attorney secured another adjournment to February 5, 2025, and interacted the date to her, however she supposedly stopped reacting to calls and messages.
According to Edaolaropin, the court later on issued a bench warrant for Tobiloba’s arrest after she repeatedly failed to appear in court.
“She was ultimately detained and remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre on March 10, 2025, after jumping bail for numerous months,” she said.
Edaolaropin said that after her arrest, Tobiloba informed the court that she was no longer interested in the services of the lawyer engaged by the school and presented another attorney to represent her.
“At that point, the school had no alternative however to permit her to deal with the case in the method she deemed fit,” she included.
She noted that the school just ended up being mindful of the instructor’s current accusations when the viral videos surfaced online.
News Source: Punch