The Chrisland School Sex Tape Scandal and Who is to Blame

If you are a regular user of social media you’ve probably already seen that Chrisland School is trending. 

Well here’s what happened;

A video was leaked on twitter where students of the school were involved in what several sources have described as sexual acts during a school trip. This video is especially heinous because it involved minors.

After the leak was a tweet from Ubi Franklin, famous talent manager that brought this matter to everyone’s attention.

He continued to inform everyone that the school had suspended said girl along with the suspects. 

Even though he explicitly refused to mention the school in question, it didn’t take long for people to connect the video and link it to Chrisland.

This led to a public social media frenzy that caught the government’s attention. The videos were deemed an illegal watch and a formal investigation was launched against the school which resulted in the indefinite closure of all the Chrisland school locations.

This also put the school on full blast as deputy national president of the NAPTAN, Adeolu Ogunbanjo said what we were all thinking in a part of his address on the issue.

“The case of the late Sylvester Oromoni of Dowen College, Lekki, is still fresh in people’s memory and now this one, all in private schools.

“I mean it is disheartening, considering the ages of the students involved,” . 

Questioning the general supervision ability of private schools.

A copy of the suspension letter issued to the parents of the young girl (whose name has been withheld) by the school was then leaked. The letter denied all rape allegations by implying that she was a consenting party to the “immoral act”.

So this caused the blame game to shift from the school to the parents of the children involved, in the explicit video. Particularly the parents of the young girl.

 Which is presumably why the girl’s mother came out to tell her story.

In her address, she claimed that she was called in for a meeting with the school where they informed her that her daughter’s offense was kissing a boy.

“What they wanted me to do was to take her phone from her so they won’t keep practicing that,” she said

Unfortunately, it was another parent that showed her the already circulating video from the trip.

She said she tried to reach out to the head teacher, Georgia Azike, but the woman would not respond to her calls and when her husband finally got her on the phone, she claimed that the school  did not know anything about the video.

She also went on to tell her daughter’s version of what really went down in that Dubia trip.

“My daughter said that they went out in the morning to have breakfast and one of the boys [name withheld] begged her that she should lend him her phone charger.

“So, she gave [name withheld] the charger. Then, later in the evening… the [name withheld] now called her room and said that she should come and pick up her charger,” she explained.

“When she got there, they opened the door and one of them told her to take her charger from the toilet… It was when she entered the toilet that they now hijacked her… told her to drink… to take a substance…

“So, they were all under the influence of drugs. So, after that, she did not know what she was doing again.”

“That was what she narrated to me. And they told her to be climbing them and somebody stood and was videoing them.”

She admonished the school for taking her daughter to get a pregnancy test without her and her husband’s consent and how they have handled the entire situation.

She also said her daughter would not speak out because she had been threatened by said boys and was “Dying in silence,” 

Who is to Blame?

Currently the public seems divided on who to hold accountable for the Chrisland school sex tape situation. A number people still blame the school, others believe the young girl’s mother is making up the rape charges. 

Then there are the twitter and Instagram jury who are calling out the minor, even going as far as to make posts slut shaming her and claiming that she must be older than 10 years old.

Even this viral post by Shola Ogudu, popularly known for being the mother of Wizkid’s first son, defended the school and completely shifted the blame to the girl and her parents.

 Unfortunately I think we’re all missing the bigger picture here. Maybe this situation isn’t about throwing blame but a chance to see the reality surrounding young children and sex. They are being exposed to regardless of parenting and school so pointing fingers isn’t the way to safeguard them. 

Sex education is the answer, and it’s no longer optional. Having an open conversation about sex both in school and at home will help them understand why they are to young to do it. Not taking their phones away and forcing abstinence down their throats. Because the reality is what they don’t learn from you they’ll learn from somewhere else.

The government’s investigation is still ongoing as details of this are still surfacing. 

Gentle but stern reminder that watching and distributing the video mentioned in this article is illegal. It’s child pornography and warrants a sentence of 14 years in prison. The source of this article was not from the video itself but other second hand sources.