Dr. Akin Baruwa
Authorities
of the University of Lagos have set up a four-man investigative team to
look into the alleged rape scandal rocking the institution.
The Head of the Information Unit of the university, Mr. Olagoke Oke, made this known to our correspondent on Tuesday.
According to him, the Dean of Student
Affairs, Prof. G.O. Babawale, is the head of the panel, while the
Secretary is O. Olasunmade of the Quality Assurance & Servicom Unit
of the university.
Other members are an Associate Prof. of Law, Dr. A. Sanni, and a lecturer in the Department of Creative Arts, Dr. A. Layiowola.
The terms of reference of the panel, Oke
said, included investigating the remote and immediate causes of the
matter and the involvement of the Faculty of Business
Administration/Distance Learning Institute.
The panel, according to him, has three weeks to complete its assignment.
A 42-year-old lecturer, Dr. Akin Baruwa,
reportedly raped an 18-year-old admission seeker (name withheld) in the
school on July 23, 2015.
Meanwhile, the Dean of the Faculty of
Business Administration, Prof. Rasheed Ojikutu, currently in Kenya for a
conference, insisted on Tuesday that the suspect was not a member of
staff of the university.
Ojikutu,
in an online correspondence to our reporter, said, “I can tell you
emphatically that the alleged offender, Mr. Akin Baruwa, is not an
employee (teaching or non-teaching staff) of the faculty. He is neither a
full time nor a part-time member of staff of any of the departments in
my faculty.
“The offence in question is so
disgusting and unspeakable that adding impersonation to it makes it more
grievous. There is no question of denial here because individuals must
answer for their undesirable deeds and conducts in the society.
Therefore, we would have owned up to his affiliation to our faculty, if
he had been one of us. Any student who claimed to know him as a teacher
is certainly not a student of the faculty.”
The leadership of the university on Sunday had disowned Baruwa, claiming that he was not an employee of the institution.
In a related development, Oke has warned
prospective post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation candidates to
discountenance a text message urging them to pay N2, 000 administrative
fees for the exercise.
Oke, who said the message was the
handiwork of fraudsters, noted that security operatives had already
arrested a suspect in connection with the misdeed.
The post-UTME will hold in the school on Wednesday, (today).
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