Professor Olaniran
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has charged a lecturer at Tai Solarin University of Education with soliciting sexual favors and money from a female student at the college.
On Monday, March 27, the ICPC charged Dr. Balogun Olaniran with one count of violating Section 8(1)(a) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, and brought him before Judge Osinuga of the Ijebu-Ode High Court in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State.
Mrs. Azuka Ogugua, the anti-graft agency’s spokesman, made this disclosure in a statement on Friday.
Ogugua pointed out that between October and November 2021, while serving as the head of the department of religious studies at TASUED, the defendant, Olaniran, requested sexual favors or N100,000 from a female student in exchange for a promise to change her academic standing.
“Within the jurisdiction of this honorable court, corruptly demanded for sexual benefit or payment of N100,000 for himself from a female student (name withheld), on account of a favor to be later shown to her in the performance 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,” the charge read in part academic results in courses with the codes EDU 311 and EDU 312 range from failure to success.
Ogugua did point out that Dr. Olaniran, the defendant, entered a not guilty plea after hearing the charge read to him, and the case was continued to May 11, 2023, when the trial would begin.
The defendant was granted bail in the amount of N500,000 with a surety in the same amount by the trial judge, Justice Osinuga. According to Ogugua, the surety must present proof of three years of tax-clearance as well as proof of mean.
