Professor Richard Akindele, the dismissed lecturer of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife has been sentenced to two year in prison for demanding sex for marks.
\nThe lecturer who was not given option of fine, demanded sex for marks from one Miss Monica Osagie, a student of the university.
\nJustice Maureen Onyekenu gave the order after Akindele changed his plea from not guilty to guilty.
\nThe trial judge ordered that the lecturer to serve the sentence in Ilesa prison due to the magnitude of the offence he committed.
\nThe judge noted that the offence had become prevalent in the country.
\nOnyekenu had earlier rejected a suspended sentence and plea bargain which the defendant\u2019s counsel , Mr Francis Omotosho , had pleaded.
\nThe judge noted that suspended sentence and plea bargain should be premised on public interest.
\nShe decried the gravity of the offence which the convict committed, adding that someone must be used \u201cas a scapegoat without letting the issue of sexual harassment in tertiary institutions continue like that.
\nThe Defence Counsel, Mr Francis Omotosho, had earlier pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy in sentencing his client.
\nThe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lecturer was first arraigned before Justice Maureen Onyetenu on Nov. 19 by the ICPC on four counts of alteration of age and demanding sex to pass his student.
\nICPC said the professor demanded sex from Osagie, in order to upgrade her academic result from fail to pass.
\nThe lecturer in the Department of Management and Accounting committed the offence contravened Sections 8 (1) (a) (ii), and 18 (d) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 and are punishable under the same sections.
\nOne of the counts reads: \u201cThat you, professor Akindele, on or about the Sept. 16, 2017 at Ile-Ife did corruptly ask for sexual benefits for yourself from Ms. Monica Osagie on account of favour to be afterwards shown to her by you in the discharge of your official duties as a lecturer in the Department of Management and Accounting, Obafemi Awolowo University, to wit.
\n\u201cThis altered her academic grades in the course with code MBA 632- Research Method from fail to pass; and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 8(1)(a)(ii) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.\u201d
\nThe 57-year-old professor had asked for plea-bargain having admitted guilt. (NAN)
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