SEX FOR MARK: Professor Sentenced to 2yrs Imprisonment

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Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo has sentenced a former lecturer of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Professor Richard Akindele, to two years in prison.

The case between Professor Akindele and Miss Monica took a u-turn today at the Federal High Court sitting Osogbo,Osun State. The defendant who had in previous sitting pleaded not guilty in the four charges of sexual harassment preferred against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), pleaded guilty.

In her ruling, Justice Maurine Onyetenu sentenced Professor Akindele to 24months imprisonment as a deterrent to other erring lectures within the school system.
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Efforts by his counsel to suspend the sentencing and negotiate for plea bargain failed, as Justice Onyetenu frowned at the rampant cases of students’ harassment by lecturers.

“The plea bargain is not absolute. The court still has discretion,” stated Justice Onyetenu who spoke with emotion. She added, “This kind of issue is too rampant in our tertiary institutions. We send children to school, they come home telling us that lecturers want to sleep with them.

“We cannot continue like this. Somebody has to be used as an example; even primary school pupils are complaining. Telling me to suspend sentence does not arise. Plea bargain does not arise. Maybe the case has continued to occur and reoccur because someone has not been used as an example.”

“It is time for the court to start upholding the right of the children, especially female students. The case is endemic,” the judge decried.

Furthermore, Counsel to the ICPC, Mr Shogunle Adenekan, then urged the court to confiscate the mobile phone of the defendant and forfeit it to the Federal Government, saying sensitive materials were discovered there during forensic. He also asked the court to grant an order releasing the mobile phone of the victim, Monica.

In her judgement, she sentenced the convict to 24 months on count one, 24 months on count two, one year on count three, and one year on count four. All sentence of jail term to run concurrently.

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