A SECONDARY School teacher in Ngorongoro District has been arrested by the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) for allegedly soliciting sex as a bribe from his student.
William Sambwethi Mollel, an Economics teacher at Embarway Secondary School, Endulen ward in Ngorongoro District was arrested on Wednesday by the corruption watchdog at an undisclosed hotel, shortly before mating the student in a trap set by some PCCB officers in the region.
In a statement availed to the media by the watchdog’s PCCB Regional Head, Ms Frida Wikesi, the accused person is alleged to have contravened article 25 of the Anti-Corruption Act.
According to Ms Wikesi, the teacher on several occasions, had approached the female student (name withheld) demanding sexual favours, despite her being a student.
To coerce the student, the teacher was alleged to have been punishing the girl from time to time unreasonably, and at the same time show flirtation gestures by the teacher’s gimmicks she thought of informing the PCCB to end the bother and what followed was a plan to nab him in the course of his unprofessional activity.
Meanwhile, in November last year, Kisutu Resident Magistrates’ Court in Dar es Salaam sentenced an assistant lecturer with the National Institute of Transport (NIT) to three years imprisonment for demanding sexual favour from a student.
In the sentence, Samson Mahimbo (70), a resident of Makongo Juu in the city, was sent to jail or pay a fine of 5m/- after being found guilty of the crime.
