A Lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun State has been caught on camera assaulting and harassing a student during a class on campus.
DAILY GIST gathered that the victim who is a 200-level student of physics is simply identified as Gift.
In a video obtained by DAILY GIST on Wednesday, the lecturer, identified as Dr Ariyo in the Department of Electrical Engineering, could be heard asking the student to switch off his phone, however he refused.
Following the student refusal to obey his directive, the lecturer resorted to assaulting and harrassing the student after forcefully took the phone from him.
According to eyewitnesses, the only thing Gift did was to mistake the class for one of his lectures and he decided to leave immediately after he realised he was in the wrong class.
But the lecturer reportedly “called him back and held him hostage with the help of a security officer without explaining what his offence was”.
The statement therefore urged the university students’ union government to intervene and probe what happened between Gift and Dr K.F. Ariyo.
Giving more details on what transpired between the duo, the Alliance of Nigerian Students Against Neo-Liberal Attacks (ANSA) in a statement dated November 8, 2023, described the lecturer as a serial abuser, who had assaulted many students.
of students can participate in this moderation and give the necessary punishment to the lecturer. He must be forced to pay the health bill of the student and be made to foot the bill for the replacement of all the student’s property damaged by him.
“The White House security unit must also be held responsible for this travesty of justice and the complicity of the security operative in the assault. He dragged the victim of the lecturer abuse to the security post but left the assailant untouched. This bias is why this case must be settled in an open moderation of Great Ife students as the school security cannot be a judge in their own case.”
The OAU Public Relations Officer, Mr. Abiodun Olanrewaju confirmed the incident on Wednesday.
Reacting to the incident, Mr Abiodun said what happened between the lecturer and the students does not reflect the core values and ideology of the institution.
He added that the university management had commenced an investigation into the matter and that appropriate action would be taken on the issue.
He said, “The Vice-Chancellor is not happy about the development. The video that is trending is not in our character. It does not reflect anything about OAU. We are taking steps about that video and we apologise to those whose credibilities are assaulted by that video.”
“The university management is seriously looking into it and the management will take appropriate action,” he added.
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