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For six years, sacked LASU lecturer delayed our results for not paying N50,000 bribe –Alabi, Ex-student
Like a season movie that is yet to climax, the last seems not to have been heard of the sacking of 15 lecturers, two non-academic staff and the demotion of two others by the Governing Council of the Lagos State University, as more facts have continued to emerge about the issue.
One of the sacked lecturers, Dr. Isaac Oyewunmi, who was the branch chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in LASU, said recently that the allegations against him were mere victimisation and that it was “shameful” that LASU relied on “ghost petition” to sack him.
He had said, “If you can even prove that I demanded some amount of money from those students, nothing more than that, and some people actually collected money, it is politics of activism and we are used to it. But it is actually shameful.
“When you have incidents of a ghost petition and then you use the evidence of a third party to rubbish the career of another – well, it’s interesting; we are enjoying it honestly.”
But, as it turns out, the person who wrote the petition against Oyewunmi has come out to state his side of the story. In an exclusive interview with Punch correspondent earlier in the week, the petitioner, Mr. Alabi Abiodun, an ex-student of LASU, revealed how the sacked lecturer allegedly delayed the processing of the result of seven students of the (2007) set for six years because they refused to pay the N50,000 bribes he allegedly demanded from each of them.
Punch, September 23, 2017
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Balarabe musa
September 23, 2017 at 3:12 pm
Allah has fought for you, and all nefarious lecturers will be rooted out soon insha Allah
Animashaun Ayodeji
September 23, 2017 at 4:21 pm
That’s the just another miracle, all the affected students should be thankful
Abeni Adebisi
September 23, 2017 at 4:14 pm
This is very common in state and federal institutions, they collect bribe at all levels. Only few people like this man only get caught. There should be proper probing of Nigerian institutions.
Animashaun Ayodeji
September 23, 2017 at 4:19 pm
There are so many people who carried some courses over because they couldn’t bribe their lecturers, some didn’t graduate because they didn’t pay the bills lectures gave to them, the amount of corruption in Nigerian institutions are alarming
Anita Kingsley
September 23, 2017 at 4:25 pm
The lecturer deserved to be sent off! University managements should try as much as possible to curb all these corrupt practices, they are spoiling Nigeria’s educational system.
JOHNSON PETER
September 24, 2017 at 4:11 am
The students caused this issue of bribing lecturers to pass examination. I know it was a student who began the trend of paying lecturers which strengthens the trend till today, if students stand on their rights, no lecturer will be able to molest them especially the stupid ladies who had slept all their lives with lecturers in order to pass exams. This is a trend in kogi state university where I happened to study
yanju omotodun
September 24, 2017 at 4:00 am
Dr oyewunmi, come defend yourself as alabi has exposed you, nothing last forever, it’s your payback time