The Consumer Protection Council
(CPC) has commended the on-going prosecution of the dismissed lecturer of the
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Professor Richard Akindele by the Independent
Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
Recall that Prof.
Akindele was on Thursday remanded in prison by a Federal High Court sitting in
Osogbo for allegedly demanding sex from his student, Monica Osagie.
CPC in a statement signed by the
Council’s Director General, Mr Babatunde Irukera while commending the on-going prosecution, charged authorities of higher
institutions in Nigeria to diligently confront sexual harassment and other
related conducts within the institutions with a view to ensuring a conducive
learning environment for students.
Irukera noted that such
commitment to s3xual harassment cases would restore the reputation of
institutions.
The statement reads: “The
Consumer Protection Council (CPC) charges authorities of higher institutions in
Nigeria to diligently confront sexual harassment and other related conduct
within the institutions with a view to ensuring a conducive learning
environment for students, who are consumers of the schools’ educational
services.
Irukera said such a commitment
from the leadership of the institutions would not only be reassuring to
students, who are primary consumers of the educational services of the schools,
but would also restore institutional reputation.
The Council re-emphasizes the
need for learning institutions to ”assiduously address sexual harassment and
other ancillary conduct in order to promote or restore institutional
reputation, and ensure that students, being consumers of educational services,
can pursue scholarship on campuses that provide safe and liberal environments
where the relationship between faculty and students leads to robust and
confident knowledge sharing.”
The director general expressed
the Council’s delight to, “the news that Professor Richard Akindele has been
arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences
Commission (ICPC), and is being criminally prosecuted for his gross and abusive
conduct.
“The diligent prosecution and
cooperation of all relevant stakeholders are vital to deterring others with
this type of abhorrent tendencies from perpetrating such conduct,” he said.
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