Unic Press UK: The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) authorities have suspended Professor Richard Akindele, the embattled academic who was named by a female student in a sex-for-marks scandal.
In a statement on Thursday, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, said:
“In the interim report submitted to the Vice Chancellor, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, Professor Richard I. Akindele, of the Department of Management and Accounting, is now established to be the lecturer in the controversial “marks for sex” audio recording. The female voice has also been identified as that of Miss Monica Osetobe Osagie, a Postgraduate Student on the Master of Business Administration Regular programme… The Vice-Chancellor, having carefully and dispassionately considered the report, also came to the conclusion that a prima facie case of serious misconduct had been established. Having regard to the gravity of the offence for which Professor Richard I. Akindele is found to be prima facie liable, the Vice-Chancellor, in line with the Code of Conduct for the University Community and acting under all the laws and regulations of the University enabling him in that regard, has directed that Professor Richard I. Akindele be suspended forthwith from the University, pending the final determination of the disciplinary case against him.“
In a recorded phone conversation, the professor who is suspected to be Richard Akindele is heard demanding to sleep with a female postgraduate student on five different days’, as a condition for awarding marks and upgrading her score from 33 (fail) to 40.
