Regional News of Saturday, 20 September 2008

Source: Ghanaian Times

Tutor's sexual exploits exposed

The GES in Nkawkaw, and the Nkawkaw Senior High School are to institute investigations into alleged sexual escapades of a Biology teacher.

The teacher, Felix Nana Yaw Adjei, is alleged to have impregnated some of the girls to whom he gave money to terminate the pregnancy.

A reliable source close to the school, a female student who is said to have been monitoring Mr Adjei's harassment of the girls, catalogued the teacher's exploits in an interview with the Times on Tuesday

The source alleged that Mr Adjei, popularly known as "Cardinal or Mystical Wonders," is now staying in his home with one of the girls whom he impregnated in 2007 while she was writing the WASSCE examination.

A visit by the Times to the teacher's house on Tuesday confirmed the alleged husband-wife relationship between Mr Adjei and the former student with whom he has a five-month old baby.

Baah told the Times that they were legally married.

Mr Adjei denied ever having an affair with any student at the school, and dared those who claim he had illicit sexual affair with them to come forward and prove it.

"The girl is my wife. The allegations about me are absolutely not true," he said and added that he went into the relationship with Patience after she had left school in 2006.

"I met her in town and proposed love to her and she asked me to see her family if indeed I love her".

Mr Adjei said he accordingly went to see Patience's family and performed the marriage rites.

Patience for her part, said Mr Adjei dated her "maybe for two or three years," adding that it was after she became pregnant that he went to see her family to "perform a small marriage ceremony".

She said: "When I got pregnant, he said he was old enough to take care of me so I should not abort the baby".

One of the alleged victims of Mr Adjei 's sexual escapades, a 21-year-old student of the school between 2004 and 2006, narrated their illicit affair in an interview on Tuesday.

She said her relationship with Mr Adjei started in 2005 while she was in her second year, and it was rumoured that some of the students who were underperforming were going to be expelled from the school.

She said it was during that period that Mr Adjei approached her and told her that he had seen her results and that she did not perform well so she would be dismissed. "If you want to remain in the school, why don't you come and visit me? she recalled the teacher telling her.

Although she said she was a little bit unsure, she went to his house because she had no choice. "I went to him and we had sex and then it was continuous because if I don't do it, I will be expelled from the school".

She alleged that Mr Adjei had sex with her for about four months until she got pregnant. "I was scared so I told' him and he gave me (¢500,000 to abort the pregnancy," she said.

She spent three days in Mr Adjei's house after the abortion before returning to school.

The school authorities did not notice her absence, only her friends did, she said.

The girl said the students knew that she was having an affair with Mr Adjei "because anytime we had break, he would come to sit by me in the classroom and chat with me."

Some of the teachers, she said, might also be aware of her relationship with Mr Adjei, indicating that she once met the Mathematics teacher, whose name she gave as "Simple," at Mr Adjei's house, "and he probably should know".

She alleged that after she ended her relationship with Mr Adjei, she later found out that he went in for two others of her mates.

"At this point we all agreed to expose his conduct and continuous harassment of female students," she said.

She said they went to the Nkawkaw office of the Ghana Education Service to lodge a complaint and they were told to put it in writing which they did and sent it by post.

She said no action had been taken yet, and Mr Adjei was still taking advantage of female students.

The girl said she was sure that the school authorities, including the headmaster were aware of his behaviour.