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A Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt has arraigned the Principal of Community Secondary School, Okuru Ama, in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State, Sylvanus Toby on 2 counts of conspiracy and criminality.
Toby and Siyeofori Godspower, who is the Community Development Committee Chairman of the Okuru Ama, as well as others now at large, were alleged to have “beaten up” one Blessing Oba, a teacher in the Secondary School over her comments on the West African Examination Council fees being paid by the students.
The charge revealed that the Principal, Toby, was alleged to have hired the CDC Chairman and others to beat up Oba after she complained about the principal allegedly collecting WAEC fees after the Rivers state government had reportedly paid for all the candidates writing the WAEC exams.
According to sources, the defendants were alleged to have also threatened to kill the claimant. They also collected her ATM card and mobile phone worth N82,000 naira, as well as her leather pouch valued at N5000.
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After listening to the arguments by the prosecution and defense counsels on the issue of bail, Chief Magistrate, Amadi Nna, granted the accused bail in the sum of N300,000, with 2 sureties who must deposit 2 passport photographs.
The Principal was also ordered by The Chief Magistrate to produce the second accused person on the next adjourned date of April 6, 2022.
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