Dr Balogun Olaniran of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State may have gotten himself into a mess.
The Don drew his unfortunate lot as he is standing trial for demanding sex and N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) in return for undeserving grades from a female student
On Monday, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, brought Dr Olaniran before Justice Osinuga of the Ijebu-Ode High Court on a charge of sexual harassment and extortion, a proceeding, the anti-graft agency’s Mrs Azuka Ogugua, related on Friday by a statement.
Ogugua in her account, said the ICPC counsel told the court how Olaniran, while serving as the Head of Department of Religious Studies at TASUED between October and November 2021, demanded sexual benefit or the payment of N100,000 from a female student with a promise to alter her academic grades.
Quoting the charge, she wrote; “Within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, corruptly demanded sexual benefit or payment of the sum of N100,000 for himself from a female student (name withheld), on account of a favour to be afterwards shown her in the discharge of his official duties as a lecturer and Head of Department of Religious Studies at the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ijebu Ode, to wit, offering to alter her academic grades from fail to pass in courses with codes EDU 311 and EDU 312.”
She added that the defendant pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to him, while the matter was adjourned till May 11, 2023, for the commencement of trial.
The defendant was admitted to bail in the sum of N500,000 with a surety in like sum.
