Authorities
of the University of Lagos on Sunday disowned the randy lecturer, Dr.
Akin Baruwa, who reportedly raped an 18-year-old admission seeker. Baruwa
allegedly raped the young girl (name withheld), who is seeking
admission to the university, in his office on July 23, 2015.
The
lecturer, currently in detention at the Kirikiri Prison, was arraigned
before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, on Thursday.
But
speaking with our correspondent on Sunday, the Head, Information Unit
of the university, Mr. Olagoke Oke, said Baruwa was not an employee of
the institution.
According to him, no such name exists on the university’s employee list whether teaching or non-teaching.
He
added, “The said Dr. Baruwa is a not a member of staff of the
university, whether teaching or non-teaching. He also does not belong to
the part-time or full-time teaching staff of the school. His name is
not on the master list of workers of the university. I have checked the
staff list using his full name and initials and could not come up with
any such name as of Friday, August 6, 2015.
“I
have also checked the list of office accommodation given to members of
staff of the university and his name is not there. There is no office
allocation attached to such a name. How he reportedly entered the said
office where the crime took place is what we are looking into as an
institution.
“While
we sympathise with the alleged victim, we are ready to cooperate with
every agency of government to get to the root of the matter as soon as
possible. As an institution, we do not support any act of violence, not
even against women. Therefore, we will help to ensure that the case
comes to a logical conclusion.”
Meanwhile,
as the authorities disowned the lecturer, some students, in the Faculty
of Business Administration, who craved anonymity for fear of
victimisation, claimed that the suspect was a part-time lecturer of the
accounting department of the university.
One
of them said, “I know him as a part-time lecturer in the accounting
department. I wonder what the university wants to achieve now by trying
to disown him.”
The Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, Prof. Rasheed Ojikutu, could not be reached as of 6pm on Sunday.
Baruwa,
who the police in Lagos arrested on August 3, reportedly confessed to
the act but claimed that the sex was by mutual consent.
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