OAU ‘$ex-For-Marks’ Professor Found Guilty, Bags 2-Year Jail Sentence
The Federal High Court in Osun State has sentenced a former Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) lecturer, Richard Akindele, to two years in prison for demanding $ex for marks from a student, Monica Osagie.
The trial judge Justice Maureen Onyekenu handed the sentence on Monday, December 17, after Mr Akindele changed his plea from not guilty to guilty to a four-count charge filed against him.
The embattled Prof. was arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) for “attempting to have $ex” with Osagie, one of his students, in exchange for marks.
The trial judge ordered that the lecturer serve his sentence in Ilesa prison due to the magnitude of the offence he committed “which is prevalent in the country.”
Mrs Onyekenu had earlier rejected a suspended sentence and plea bargain which the defendant’s counsel, Francis Omotosho, had pleaded for, noting that suspended sentence and plea bargain should be premised on public interest.
She decried the gravity of the offence the convict committed, adding that someone must be used “as a scapegoat without letting the issue of $exual harassment in tertiary institutions continue like that.
Mr Omotosho had earlier pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy in sentencing his client.
The lecturer was first arraigned before Justice Maureen Onyetenu on November 19 by the ICPC on four counts of alteration of age and demanding $ex to pass his student.
SOURCE: 360nobs.com