Authorities of the University of Lagos on Sunday
disowned the randy lecturer, Dr. Akin Baruwa, who
reportedly raped an 18-year-old admission seeker.

Baruwa allegedly raped the young girl (name
withheld), who is seeking admission to the university,
in his office on July 23, 2015.

The lecturer, currently in detention at the Kirikiri
Prison, was arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s
Court, Lagos, on Thursday.

But speaking with our correspondent on Sunday, the
Head, Information Unit of the university, Mr. Olagoke
Oke, said Baruwa was not an employee of the
institution.
According to him, no such name exists on the
university’s employee list whether teaching or non-
teaching.

He added, “The said Dr. Baruwa is a not a member of
staff of the university, whether teaching or non-
teaching. He also does not belong to the part-time or
full-time teaching staff of the school. His name is not
on the master list of workers of the university. I have
checked the staff list using his full name and initials
and could not come up with any such name as of
Friday, August 6, 2015.

“I have also checked the list of office accommodation
given to members of staff of the university and his
name is not there. There is no office allocation
attached to such a name. How he reportedly entered
the said office where the crime took place is what we
are looking into as an institution.

“While we sympathise with the alleged victim, we are
ready to cooperate with every agency of government
to get to the root of the matter as soon as possible.

As an institution, we do not support any act of
violence, not even against women. Therefore, we will
help to ensure that the case comes to a logical
conclusion.”

Meanwhile, as the authorities disowned the lecturer,
some students, in the Faculty of Business
Administration, who craved anonymity for fear of
victimisation, claimed that the suspect was a part-
time lecturer of the accounting department of the
university.

One of them said, “I know him as a part-time lecturer
in the accounting department. I wonder what the
university wants to achieve now by trying to disown
him.”

The Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration,
Prof. Rasheed Ojikutu, could not be reached as of
6pm on Sunday.

Baruwa, who the police in Lagos arrested on August
3, reportedly confessed to the act but claimed that
the sex was by mutual consent.

Source: PunchNg