Friday, March 29, 2024

Sex For Mark Scandal: OAU Professor Denies Allegation On Sexual Assault.

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It should be recalled that a lecturer was dismissed in the year 2018 because of a sex for mark allegation. However a Professor in the department of Linguistics and African languages, Professor Ayo Opefeyitimi who takes Yoruba Incantations and Stylistics has also been accused and dragged before the University panel by a student, Miss Babafemi Boluwatife Hannah, who claimed to have been molested by the Professor.

On the 18th day of March, the lady claimed that the Professor molested her in his office by rubbing his p*nis against her buttocks after which he gave her a thousand naira to find her way home. The victim claimed it happened really quick and she was shocked, as a result of the incident she was badly bruised.

It has been confirmed by the University spokesman that the Professor is facing the panel after the allegations was filed and it was also revealed that 5 more allegations has been filed against the professor before, but this latest one prompted the school to take necessary actions and that the management is not ready to sweep the case under the carpet.

However on the 18th day of April, the Professor who has been silent on the matter since it got out to the media released a statement to claim he was silent because he wasn’t around and he also claimed the lady in question is his fiancee and that truly she came to his office on that day but whatever happened was with her consent. He further added that their wedding is fixed till after she graduates and that she was the one who asked that their relationship be kept a secret just so she could be able to set him up and avoid getting married to him even after he has helped her. The statement goes thus:

Re: Report Of Sexual Assault and Molestation Against Professor Joseph A. Opefeyitimi

I am Professor Joseph A. Opefeyitimi, sorry for replying a little late, I was not at home and instructed my family members to take the letters for me. Truly, Babafemi Boluwatife Hannah was in my office on Thursday the 17th day of March, 2022. All that happened in my office was consensual and she was the one that called for it. I never knew she has a grand masters’ plan for.e. I thought as husband and wife to be right from before she got admission into our department I could leave her to treat me the way she wanted. I called her as a result of the situation in town because she lives there and she actually came to update me.

There are too many lies in her write-ups. For instance, while paragraph three was true, paragraph four was self contradictory. Again, her claim of indecent assault in paragraph 11 that I, “sexually assaulted, molested and violated” her, between 1.23pm she entered into my office and the 2pm I had to take my son from school, which I did, mist be substantiated, because it has turned the whole allegation from from civility, tending towards criminality. That is why I am involving a lawyer.

I am suggesting by the way of appeal that my lawyer be made to witness all proceedings relating to this case. In fact, I will be grateful if he could be made to sit if only as an observer at today’s 12pm noon departmental panel.

I’m summary, Boluwatife is my wife to be. She was responsible for all that happened in my office on that day. If after four years of dating, waiting to consummate our Union, she suddenly turned around to be cleverly taking pictures of my body parts as evidence to indict me. I must not handle this case alone, since my wife at home is privy to our relationship. Since our relationship was being planned towards marriage after her graduation, I already told my wife into confidence on in, even though the lady wants the relationship to be kept as secret and she has never been sincere.

I want the panels to discountenance and dismiss the petition. It is a ploy to escape marrying me despite her promise and all the assistance I have rendered for her including the awards she had taken within the period of her studentship Thank you. Yours faithfully, Professor Joseph A. Opefeyitimi

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