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The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof.
Rahamon Bello, on Monday, insisted that Dr. Afeez Baruwa was not an employee of
the institution.
This, Bello said had contributed to the inability of the
university authorities from punishing him for allegedly raping an admission
seeker in the school.
Baruwa allegedly raped an 18-year-old female who was seeking
an admission to the university.
But at a briefing on Monday, Bello said the university had
no relationship with Baruwa, hence it could not directly punish him like it did
when its personnel were involved in sexual harassment in the past.
He also noted that the institution had no relationship with
the alleged victim.
The VC said the only formal relationship the university had
with Baruwa was when he undertook his undergraduate and MSc programmes in
Marketing at the Distance Learning Institute.
Bello, who however, admitted that Baruwa was engaged by the
DLI, noted that the term of his contract did not include providing him an
office facility.
“He was engaged for project supervising. He was supposed to
come to the Institute to collect documents to work with and leave. Even if he
had to interact with students, such was supposed to be limited to the Institute
premises,” he explained.
He explained that the accused had never taught in the DLI
where the alleged rape took place or any other department of the institution.
Bello, who disclosed the findings of a panel established to
investigate the issue to journalists, argued that the university was
unfortunately linked to the saga.
According to the VC, the accused could have carried the act
in any other place.
Bello explained that the accused had driven the victim from
Ipaja, where her parents handed her over to him for assistance, to UNILAG on
the fateful day.
To avoid unnecessary litigation, he also noted, the
authorities were not in an hurray to punish Baruwa’s friend, Dr. Oluwatunji
Dakare, whose office was allegedly used for the act.
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