Femi Makinde
The Governing Council of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, has set up a joint investigative panel with the senate of the institution to further probe the sex-for-mark allegation levelled against Prof. Richard Akindele by a female post-graduate student of Business Administration, Monica Osagie.
Osagie had released a telephone conversation between her and Akindele where the lecturer allegedly demanded to have sex with her five times as a condition to jerk up her score from 33 to a pass mark.
The audio conversation went viral on the Internet and the university management set up a fact-finding committee, which authenticated the veracity of the audio recording and subsequently recommended the suspension of the lecturer.
Though Osagie did not appear before the committee during their first sitting, she later appeared with two human rights activists led by…
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