OAU Lecturer ‘S*x For Mark’ Remanded In Prison Custody

A Federal High Court, sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Monday ordered that a “s-x for mark” sacked senior lecturer of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Professor Richard Akindele, to be remanded in prison custody.

The presiding judge, Justice Maurine Onyetenu, ordered that Akindele is remanded in prison at Ilesa for demanding s-x from her postgraduate student, Monica Osagie before she could pass his course.

The embattled Professor of Management and Accounting was arraigned in court on a four-count charge by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offenses Commission (ICPC).

The anti-graft agency alleged that the accused unlawfully demanded s-x from his student and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section A (1)(2) of the corrupt practices and other related offences.

The charge sheet read in part: “That you Professor Richard Iyiola Akindele on 16 September 2018, did unlawfully solicit for s-x from your student Monica Osagie, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 18 of the corrupt practices and other related offences, 2000.”

The caused person was also alleged to have unlawfully had WhatsApp conversation with Osagie sometimes in June 2018, and thereby committed an offence contrary to the law.

Taking his plea, the accused pleaded not guilty to the four-count charge.

The Defence Counsel, Mr. F. Omotosho, who urged the court to grant his client bail, said: “he is a known professor and can not jump bail.”

The prosecutor, who is a Senior legal officer with the ICPC, Mr. Kehinde Adetoye, opposed the oral bail application of the counsel, noting that the accused has refused to appear at the commission since he was granted administrative bail.

He said: “We have been making efforts since 5th of November to affect the service of the process. They have refused to come back and they were not reachable on a mobile phone. We are surprised to see them here today. We just served them the process.”

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