Dr. Olabode Ojoniyi, a lecturer in the Department of Languages at the
Osun State University, Osogbo, has been fired from his job after a sex
tape of him with a female student, Mercy Ikwue, was released.
The
Punch reports that the university’s Governing Council headed by Mallam
Yusuf Ali SAN, sacked the lecturer, whom the tape showed nude on a bed
in a hotel room caressing the student.
He said, “The Council
met last week and the report of the panel that investigated Ojoniyi’s
amorous affair with the female student was deliberated upon. His
appointment was terminated because that is the penalty stated in the
Code of Conduct of Staff of Osun State University,” a source in the Governing Council told the Punch Newspapers.
Mercy
(the student) who is believed to have come under intense pressure from
Ojoniyi to have sex with him captured the sex act after she pretended to
have succumbed to his relentless pressure. Unknown to the lecturer, she
was recording on her laptop while pretending to be watching a movie, Things Fall Apart.
However,
Ojoniyi blamed his problems on a recently sacked lecturer of the
university. He said the student was contracted to blackmail him. He
however did not deny being the one shown in the video.
In a
related news, a professor at the university recently resigned his
appointment over the alleged rape of a female student in his office.
Part II articles 15 and 23 of the Code of Conduct for Staff and Students of UNIOSUN reads,
“An
academic staff shall not conduct himself/ herself in relation to
students in such a manner that derogates from his status as a lecturer,
examiner and adviser. Specifically, sexual harassment of students by
(members of) staff is totally forbidden. Any (member of) staff found
guilty of sexual harassment shall be dismissed from the service of the
university and may be handed over to relevant state authority for
prosecution.
“An academic (member of) staff shall not
demand from students any gratification whether in cash or in kind
including sexual gratification in the discharge of his/her lawful
duties. Breach of this code shall warrant appropriate sanction ranging
from warning to termination of appointment depending on the gravity of
the offence.”
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