Sex for grade: Boniface’s office remains locked

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About three months after a lecturer at the University of Lagos, Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu, was accused of demanding sex from an admission seeker, his office remains locked.
Igbeneghu, along with another lecturer, Dr Samuel Oladipo,., was indicted in a documentary released by the BBC.
His office, Room A226 in the European Languages Department, Faculty of Arts, had been sealed by the management, with some firmly nailed cross-bars over it.

The panel set up to investigate the allegedly sexual harassment of Igbeneghu has yet to announce to the public its decision, however.

When Phenomenal.com.ng visited the office on Friday, January 3, we found out that those two cross-bars have been removed.
Efforts to reach the management had not yielded fruits as of the time of filing this report.
An informal interaction with some members of staff in the department showed that the panel has not officially made any declaration.
“He has not resumed. But we don’t know anything about the panel’s conclusion concerning Dr Igbeneghu’s matter,” one of them said.

The BBC Africa Eye’s video’s revelation has been of concern to many people and it raised a lot of dust when it came on stream.

The University of Lagos, which claims abhorrence of sexual harassment, has since suspended Dr. Igbeneghu, who is also a pastor of the Foursquare church and former sub-dean of the Faculty of Arts.

BBC, on October 8, 2019, reported that he was one of several academics secretly filmed as part of a year-long investigation by BBC Africa Eye.
BBC Africa Eye had sent an undercover journalist to approach the lecturer claiming she is in need of admission.
As ‘The Vanguard’ reported it then, the undercover journalist presented herself as being a 17-year-old secondary school graduate. 17-year-old is below the legal age of consent both in Lagos State and in the country. This means having a sexual relationship with a person of such age is classified as “child abuse” or better “child sexual abuse”. The lecturer invited her to his office for a number of tutorials. As a safety measure, the decoy has a panic button with her that alerts her colleagues in case of any danger.

Igbeneghu’s office door: Cross-bars removed
PHOTO: Según Ige
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