OAU Accounting and Management Professor, Richard Akindele, was recorded in the process of sexually preying on his student and promising to award her a pass mark in his course.
Many responders have unequivocally condemned the professor and shown sympathy for the victim.
But did some responders commend the brave young woman for recording the man "in the act"? No!
Did they ask whether in fact the student deserved the fail grade in the first place or was failed by the professor as a tactic of sexual blackmail? No!
Did they ask how many victims this sexual predator had successfully violated before this brave, defiant woman undertook this mission of exposure? No!
Did they stop to ask why a Professor would even have such inappropriate, unprofessional conversations with his student? No!
Did they inquire into the disciplinary process, if any, that should/would follow? No!
Did they ask if the young victim has any recourse or avenues of redress within and without the university? No!
Did they ask how many Akindeles are prowling Nigerian university campuses and violating their female students in exchange for grades? No!
Did they even ask why she resorted to social media and not report the man's conduct to higher university authorities? No!
Instead, they have plenty to say about how the voice on the tape may have been manipulated and may not be that of the professor.
They say she violated the man's privacy and trust.
They ask what the victim is doing in the man's office.
They ask if she's a serious student (why did she fail the course in the first place, they ask)
They ask if she was not the one that "seduced" or solicited the professor for the sex-for-marks scheme.
They accuse her, the victim, of a malicious plot to destroy the professor and his career.
Taking their victim-blaming even further, they ask why she was having such a conversation with a married man. They are able to sustain this illogic because they do not reverse the question to ask why the married man was having such a conversation with his student.
They ask why she did not petition higher university authorities to look into her grade rather than approach the lecturer.
The saddest part of all this? Most of the accusers, doubters, and questioners are women, some of whom even said lecturers similarly sexually preyed upon them when they were undergraduates in Nigerian universities.
or Pastor ......Very sad indeed.OU--On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:00 AM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:My People:One curious matter here...Is he Professor Akindele or Professor Akinola?Sad...Bolaji Aluko--
On Tuesday, April 10, 2018, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:Predictably, so far, there is radio silence from our colleagues at home, purveyors of the rhetoric of "a few bad eggs," and "the system is not as bad as you portray it." We await the disciplinary action, if any, that will be taken against this predator. On social media, those who know him say he's been preying on his students for 20 years. And he is also said to be a pastor. Go figure. Only God knows how many female students have acquiesced to his predatory demands over the years before this brave, young woman decided to record him in the act, so to speak.One thing is for sure: Professor Richard Akindele will have many of his own colleagues (those who will vehemently argue that one is being unfair to them, the "clean" lecturers) begging on his behalf and saying that it was the devil, that he is human and bound to make a mistake, and that he has mouths to feed and so his career should be spared. These pleading lecturers will not even have the self-awareness to realize that they have become accomplices and enablers in the crime.There will of course be no consideration for this woman and Akindele's many other victims.--On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 5:57 AM, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:Very sadtoyin--On 10 April 2018 at 06:59, Shola Adenekan <sholaadenekan@gmail.com> wrote:Dear All,As a follow up to Moses's post. Here is another link to the story as published by Premium TimesAnd here is an excerpt from the article:Several students and staff told PREMIUM TIMES that the male voice was that of Richard Akinola, a professor in the management and accounting department of the faculty of administration at OAU. We also gathered that the lady is a final year student, who failed a course taught by Mr Akinola. Several efforts to get the lecturer's reaction were unsuccessful on Monday. He was not available the different times our correspondent went to his office.A senior academic staff in the accounting department, who volunteered to speak without being named, told our correspondent that Mr Akinola was "caught three years ago" for engaging in the sex-for-mark practice, a common problem in Nigerian universities.
"Every Nigerian adult, who is not a liar, who schooled in Nigeria, knows a Nigerian girl that was hassled for sex over marks/not failing a course in Nigerian public universities," commented Japhet Omojuwa, one of the social media users demanding authorities act to deter others.
--On 9 April 2018 at 23:24, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:--Here is a link to the latest sex scandal involving a Nigeria-based professor soliciting for sex from a student to pass her in his course. The audio is currently trending.https://www.naijanews.com/gist/56076-oau-lecturer-professor- richard-akindele-involved-in-s ex-scandal/ METRO NEWS
OAU Lecturer Professor Richard Akindele Involved In Sex Scandal
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Richard Akindele, a Professor at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, is in trouble for demanding to have sex five times with his student before passing her.
A telephone conversation involving the and the student was posted on Youtube on April 9.
Naija News was able to confirm that the voice in the leaked conversation was his, it is established that the Professor is indeed a staff of OAU.
The female student, whose identity is still unknown, called the Professor to inquire about his earlier demand for sex to pass her in the lecturer's course that she supposedly failed.
He told the student that she would repeat the exam in the next academic session since she had refused to "take the opportunity" he offered her to have sex with him.
"I gave you an opportunity and you missed it," the Professor told the female student on phone. "Forget about it. You will do it next year."
The student said she was calling to confirm whether he was serious about having sex with her.
He responded: "Me that agreed to do something. I know what I meant. If you don't trust me forget about it. If I wouldn't do it, why should I give you audience in the first place. If I am not interested in doing it, I won't give you audience.
"The other person has come and I told her straight away because there is nothing I can do to bail that person out and her mark is even better than your own. The person scored 39 while your own is 33."
The lecturer then asked her why she told him that she was on her period the day they met and he demanded sex.
"I was really seeing my period Professor Akindele," the girl responded but the man told her to stop mentioning his name.
"And now nko?" he asked, to which she replied that the period had ended.
"Your boyfriend has done it yesterday?" he asked.
"Is it every time that someone will be doing with the boyfriend?," she responded. "Is it every time you do it with your wife?"
"Yes," he answered.
"It's a lie," the girl exclaimed. "Not possible."
When the girl asked him about the plan for the arrangement for her to have the sex so that she could avoid repeating the course, he told her that they would have the first sex the next day and on four subsequent occasions.
"Is not five we agreed? Our agreement is five," he said
"Is it B that you want to give me or C?" the girl asked. "Why would it be five times you will knack me?"
She then told him she would not have sex with him five times.
"Prof, you know what? Let me fail it. I can't do it five times. For what nah? No worry. Thank you, sir," she said, then ended the call.
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