The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University(OAU) has placed its lecturer, Olabisi Olaleye on a half-salary pending the investigations to unravel his involvement on sex scandal allegation preferred against him by one of his students, Miss Motunrayo Afolayan.
Miss Afolayan is a 400-Level student in the Department of International Relations in the Faculty of Administration.
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The decision, according to a source close to the university senate, was taken pending the outcome of the investigation.
It was gathered that Miss Afolayan failed a Diplomacy course with code IRS 305 during the 2017/2018 academic calendar while at 300 level.
She also registered the course for the 2018/2019 session, but she alleged that the lecturer threatened to fail her if she refused to lay with him.
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It was learnt that the students visited Olaleye in his office, where she recorded their conversation, where the lecturer, who spoke in Yoruba said: “I promise you that you will fail this course three times if you refused to sleep with me”.
Though the lecturer refused emissaries sent to plead with him on behalf of the student, he later released her result along with others and she passed the course. However, the lady had already reported the matter to the institution’s Centre for Gender and Policy Studies.
When reporters contacted the University’s Spokesperson, Abiodun Olarewaju, he said the incident happened last year and immediately the matter was reported to the management, it set up a panel to investigate it. He also confirmed that the management placed the lecturer on half a salary pending the decision of the panel.
“The lecturer has appeared before the panel, headed by Prof Yetunde Ajibade, also, the student has appeared too.
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Although the panel has not concluded its findings the lecturer has been placed on half salary pending the conclusion of the panel. The university has vowed not to condone any issue of sexual harassment, sexual intimidation or sexual assault. That was why when she lodged complained with the authority, irrespective of the fact that her result had been released eventually, the university still set up the panel to investigate the matter”, Abiodun said.
The incident comes after Prof. Richard Akindele was dismissed from the same faculty after being indicted for demanding sex from a female student to help improve her grades and was later jailed by a court for two years.
www.sojworldnews.com (c) January 16, 2020
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