A Federal High Court in Osun on
Monday, Sentenced a former Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) lecturer, Richard
Akindele, to two years in prison for demanding s3x-for-marks from a student,
Monica Osagie.
Justice Maureen Onyekenu, gave
the order after Akindele changed his plea, from not guilty to guilty.
The trial judge ordered that the
lecturer serves his sentence in Ilesa prison, due to the magnitude of the
offence he committed “which is prevalent in the country”.
Onyekenu had earlier rejected a
suspended sentence and plea bargain which the Defendant’s counsel , Mr Francis
Omotosho, had pleaded for, noting that suspended sentence and plea bargain
should be premised on public interest.
She decried the gravity of the
offence the convict committed, adding that someone must be used “as an escape
goat” without letting the issue of sexual harrasment in tertiary institutions
continue like that.
The Defence Counsel, Francis
Omotosho, had earlier pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy in
sentencing his client.
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 .
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