Intimate Harassment In LASU! Pls Help!

OPEN LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY
GOVERNOR BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA
(SAN), THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF
LAGOS STATE ON THE intimate
HARRASSMENT IN LASU
Dear Sir,
The issue of intimate harassment and
misconduct by lecturers in Nigerian
universities has always been reoccurring in
some of our universities and many
lecturers have been found culpable in this
ignoble act to the detriment of students. So
many students have been victims of
lecturers' escapades and we can no longer
keep quiet over this issue that has ruined
the lives of many students who have been
our classmates or school mates as the case
may be.
At the Lagos State University (LASU ), Ojo,
we have so many dedicated lecturers who
take their job seriously and discharge their
duties accordingly. But there are those who
capitalise in sexually harassing students
they are meant to teach. At the Faculty of
Law in LASU, the Sub-Dean of the faculty,
Mr A. O. Ogunseye is one lecturer who has
been known to be involved in the
victimisation of students and intimate
harassment of girls.
Your Excellency, I want to bring your
attention to this issue and the attention of
Nigerians to what we are passing through
in the hands of Mr Ogunseye because we
are tired of this extortion, victimisation and
intimate harassment by him.
He has been doing this for a long time and
for over five years without any form of
reprimand from the school management
thereby causing many students grief, pain
and delays in their academic pursuit. The
Vice-Chancellor of LASU, Professor John
Oladapo Obafunwa is a man of integrity
and I believe that if he is aware of this act,
he will not hesitate to deal with such
lecturer accordingly. Mr Ogunseye has
committed so many atrocities against we
students in the Faculty of Law and I think it
is time to let you and the whole world know
that we have suffered enough in silence.
He gives many girls 5 points after taking
them to bed and many other brilliant
students who deserve to have 5 or 4 points
he would deny them this and would give
them 1 or 2 points at most, even when it is
glaring that these academically sound
students deserve more than what he gave
them. He collects huge amount of money
from students in order to falsify and
upgrade their results for them. Recently, he
told a girl doing her undergraduate
programme in Law and who is supposed to
graduate with a third class degree to pay
him one hundred and fifty thousand naira
in order for him to upgrade her grade to
second class upper. But when the girl told
him she didn't have the money, he advised
her to sell her blackberry phone in order to
bring the money to him. He is obsessed
with money and sex and has slept with so
many girls in the Faculty of Law in order to
give them marks they don't merit and many
of them have suffered too much in his
hands.
He also collects two hundred and fifty
thousand naira from some students doing
their Masters in Law (LL.M) programmes in
order to upgrade their score to a higher
score or grade which they don't merit.
Every year, Mr Ogunseye abandons his
official duty and travels abroad and spends
up to two months without leave or any
approval from the faculty and he would
assign his course to junior lecturers who
are not competent to handle the course.
His stock in trade is to continually extort
money from students and he has agents
who usually solicit on his behalf for other
students to pay him money for marks. As a
result of his dishonourable role in
upgrading scores for students, the Dean of
the Faculty of Law, Dr Olatokunbo Obadina
had to change the password of the portal
used by lecturers in the Faculty of Law for
uploading students' results so that Mr
Ogunseye will not have access to carry out
his despicable acts.
Mr Ogunseye was my project supervisor
and for over four months he kept tossing
me up and down and refused to approve
my project even after collecting over ten
thousand naira from me and despite all the
efforts I put in researching, writing, re-
writing and typing the project and all the
money I spent in doing this. Later when I
discovered he was not ready to approve my
project and was only interested in
continuing to extort money from me, I had
to apply for another project supervisor,
Barrister Gbenga Ojo, who supervised my
project and approved it without delay and
without collecting any money from me. But
I had to write another project for Barrister
Ojo since his own department is different
from that of Mr Ogunseye.
It is so frustating the type of pain, both
emotional and psychological, which Mr
Ogunseye has put many students through.
By his conduct, he is a disgrace to the
Faculty of Law and the Lagos State
University as a whole. People like this
should not be entrusted with positions of
authority because they end up abusing
their power and corrupting the minds of
young and upcoming students and
jeopardising the future of many of them.
I hereby call on you sir, as the Visitor to the
Lagos State University, to institute a proper
and thorough investigation into this issue
of intimate harassment, intimidation,
victimisation, dereliction of duty and
extortion by Mr Ogunseye, the Sub-Dean of
the faculty of Law and if found culpable, he
should be dealt with accordingly.
We recall that some lecturers were sacked
recently by the University of Benin for these
same issues of intimate harassment and
extortion of students. Any lecturer who
engages in this dishonourable behaviour
does not deserve to be a lecturer and
should be shown the way out of the
university system to avoid bringing down
the image of the university.
I hereby call on the Nigerian media to also
investigate this matter discreetly using their
tool of investigative journalism and I want
the media to come to LASU Faculty of Law
and interview many students on this issue
especially girls who have been sexually
harassed and abused on several occasions
by Mr Ogunseye. This matter must not be
swept under the carpet by the Lagos State
government, the media and all well
meaning Nigerians because enough is
enough. We have suffered enough and we
can no longer keep quiet in the face of
flagrant abuses and misconduct by our
own lecturers who should be role models
to the youths.
It is my hope that this letter will be given
adequate publicity by the media to let
Nigerians know what we are passing
through in LASU in the hands of randy
lecturers even after the school fees were
increased to a whooping two hundred and
fifty thousand naira per student.
From: Adeshina Johnson.
Faculty of Law, LASU, Lagos.

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