Five lecturers of Delta State
University, DELSU, Abraka, have been recommended for sack by a disciplinary
committee of the institution set up to investigate various offences, including
sexual harassment of female students and financial extortion for marks. The recommendation of the committee
is coming 13 months after the institution dismissed three lecturers for alleged
professional misconduct, including a lecturer in the Department of Theatre
Arts, who was caught pants down with examination scripts in the room of a 400
level female student in the same department. Vanguard gathered that one of the
lecturers (name withheld) of the Department of Primary/ Nursery Education was
caught pants down in a hotel room within Abraka and detained for two days at
the Abraka police station while trying to have his way with a female student,
who had pretended to have succumbed to his sexual advances but to find out she
had reported to the police. A former Head of Basic Medical Sciences Department
and traditional chief (name withheld) was also recommended for dismissal over
alleged sexual harassment and collection of various sums of money from his
students in a bid to pass them in their exams. Though management of the
institution is yet to issue a statement on the matter, the university’s Public
Relations Officer, Mr. Edward Agbure, when contacted said that the fate of the
lecturers would be determined by the DELSU Governing Council.
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