ABRAKA—FIVE
lecturers of Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, have been recommended for
sack by a disciplinary committee of the institution set up to investigate
various offences, including sexual harassment of female students and financial
extortion for marks. Delsu main gate Delsu main gate The recommendation of the
committee is coming 13 months after the institution dismissed three lecturers
for alleged professional misconduct, including a lecturer in the Department of
Theatre Arts, who was caught pants down with examination scripts in the room of
a 400 level female student in the same department. Vanguard gathered that one
of the lecturers (name withheld) of the Department of Primary/ Nursery
Education was caught pants down in a hotel room within Abraka and detained for
two days at the Abraka police station while trying to have his way with a
female student, who had pretended to have succumbed to his sexual advances but
to find out she had reported to the police. A former Head of Basic Medical
Sciences Department and traditional chief (name withheld) was also recommended
for dismissal over alleged sexual harassment and collection of various sums of
money from his students in a bid to pass them in their exams. Though management
of the institution is yet to issue a statement on the matter, the university’s
Public Relations Officer, Mr. Edward Agbure, when contacted said that the fate
of the lecturers would be determined by the DELSU Governing Council.
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