According to Punchng, the
committee members met with Osagie and another lecturer, who the female student
claimed she reported the matter to for his intervention, at the Pro-
Chancellor’s Lodge on the campus on Tuesday.
One of her lawyers, the Executive
Director of WARD-C, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, while narrating what happened
during the meeting to journalists, said Osagie scored 45 in the course which
Akindele taught her and not 33 that the lecturer claimed that she scored.
Her words: “The committee members
asked her ( Osagie) to narrate her ordeal with the professor which she did .
She affirmed that the recording
took place and she justified why she resorted to self -help because there was
no effective support coming from the university. The incident happened towards the
end of last year (2017).
She has completed her programme.
She passed the course that we are talking about. She didn’t fail. The school
reaffirmed that she passed and that she scored 45 and not 33; and the man (prof.)
did not give her mark. Apparently the man was using the 33 as a bait to get
her.
She talked about the fact that
she is a good student and that she passed all her courses. That she shouldn’t
have failed the course and that she checked and found out that she passed and
that the 33 the man talked about must have been his (lecturer) imagination.
It must also have been a way of
negotiating with her to get her to bow to his wish , which was the reason she
recorded the conversation. I can categorically say that there was no sexual
relationship between them.”
The lawyer said the centre hoped
that whatever decision the university arrived at would serve as a deterrent to
other lecturers who were in the habit of harassing and exploiting female
students.
They should extend this measures to Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri Imos State, the worst school ever in the histroy of Nigeria
ReplyDeleteI hope the authorities will act on this information too. If this happens in your school, write the name of your school here so they will begin to tremble. Sanity should be restored.
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