The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission(ICPC) has indicted a lecturer at the Tai Solarin University of Education for soliciting sexual acts and money from students at the university. Defendant, Dr Balogun Olaniran, was brought before Justice Osinuga of the Ijebu-Ode High Court, Ogun State on Monday, March 27, on one count charge.
The charge is said to be against Section 8 (1) (a) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000. The spokesperson for the anti-graft agency, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, revealed this in a statement on Friday.
The ICPC counsel told the court how Olaniran demanded sexual benefit or the payment of N100,000 from a female student. He made this demand with a promise to alter her academic grades. This was while serving as the Head of the Department of Religious Studies at TASUED between October and November 2021,
The charge read in part-
“Within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, corruptly demanded sexual benefit or payment of the sum of N100,000 for himself from a female student (name withheld), on account of a favour to be afterwards shown her in the discharge of his official duties as a lecturer and Head of Department of Religious Studies at the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ijebu Ode, to wit, offering to alter her academic grades from fail to pass in courses with codes EDU 311 and EDU 312”.
The spokesperson for the ICPC noted that the defendant pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to him. However, the matter was adjourned till May 11, 2023, for the commencement of trial.
The defendant was admitted to bail in the sum of N500,000 with a surety in like sum.
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