School Sacks Sex Seeking Lecturer

professor Akindele Johnson

Obafemi Awolowo University has sacked professor Akindele Johnson who was alleged to have sought for sex in exchange for marks from one Monica Osagie, a student undergoing a master of business programme at the university.

The professor was implicated via a recorded telephone conversation, which went viral, in which the lecturer allegedly demanded five rounds of sex to enhance Monica’s marks.

The Vice Chancellor of OAU, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, announced the professor's dismissal in a statement on Wednesday in Ile-Ife, Osun State.

Prof Ogunbodede had, on April 19, confirmed Akindele’s suspension pending the findings of the investigative panel.

Ogunbodede said that the University Senate at its meeting on June 14 considered the committee’s findings that Akindele had  series of inappropriate relationship with his student.

And this was established through their conversation in the audio recording, his reply to the query, the oral evidence and the printed ‘WhatsApp conversations’ tendered before the committee.

The vice chancellor said Akindele had acted in a manner that compromised his position as a teacher and examiner, in that his conversations with Monica Osagie were about examination scores and inducement of favour for the alteration of examination scores.

Ogunbodede said: “He offered to change Miss Osagie’s purported “33%” result to a pass mark, of which it was later discovered the lady had 45% which is a pass mark

“Professor Akindele’s actions in requesting sexual favours from Miss Osagie to change her examination scores was scandalous behaviour that has brought ridicule to the name of the university and has tarnished the reputation of the university, as it portrays the university as an institution where its teachers and examiners trade marks for sexual favours."

Reported by: O Florence