OAU Lecturer Hitting Student, Investigations Begin (Video)

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Obafemi Awolowo University has commenced investigations into a dramatic incident that involved a lecturer and a 200-level male student.

The 200-level student, simply identified as Gift was said to have stirred up murky waters when he mistakenly walked into a lecture, he assumed was his own. Witnesses at the scene confirmed that as soon as he realized he was in the wrong class, he tried to leave immediately but was intercepted by the lecturer already teaching.

Another student present at the scene, (name withheld) said that the duo engaged in an argument following the student’s attempt to leave the class.

“He thought the class was meant for him as well. When he saw that the faces in the class were strange, he quickly dashed out. The lecturer then called him back. After a while, we discovered that the lecturer invited the security personnel to take the student. He also dragged the student’s phone,” the source said.

In one of the videos of the incident that circulated online, the student was seen struggling with a man said to be a security official.

The student was also seen trying to press his phone when the lecturer shouted, “Don’t call anybody! Switch off that phone! You can’t be more than me, even if you’re the VC’s son, I won’t take this from you. Switch off the phone!”

“What did I do?” the student, Gift, was heard saying.

A fracas ensued and in the heat of the moment, the said lecturer, in the process of trying to snatch the student’s phone threw a punch at the student which caused an uproar.

The Students’ Union spokesperson, Elijah Omisore, when contacted, condemned the incident, saying the union was demanding that the lecturer be prosecuted.
“We are investigating the matter. The lecturer is planning to apologize but we’re not taking any apology.

Omisore further said, “Around 10 am, the union leadership got information that a lecturer, Dr Ariyo, was harassing Gift, a Part 2 student. Information has it that Gift mistakenly walked into the lecturer’s class trying to locate the venue for his lecture but learned that it was not his class and left immediately. Still, he was called back by Dr Ariyo, and an argument erupted, leading to a physical assault from the lecturer against the student.”

“We demand an open hearing and a public apology from Dr Ariyo to the generality of Great Ife students; That the lecturer and the entire department make a commitment that the victim and other students in the class won’t face any form of victimization moving forward,” the statement added.

When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the university, Abiodun Olarewaju, also condemned the action of the lecturer but said that prompt investigations into the matter had begun.

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