Students parliament Speaker hails Judiciary for slamming a 21st Years Jail Term on Lecturer

The national speaker of the Nigerian Students Parliament (NSP); Rt.Hon. Mubarak Aliyu Rimi today has congratulated Nigerian students for their victory against the Sex for Admission Lecturer, VAM News reports.

Speaker Mubarak thanked Justice Josephine Oyefeso of the Ikeja High Court who sentenced a former part-time lecturer at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akin Baruwa, to 21 years imprisonment for raping 18-year-old admission seeker. 

Investigations confirmed that Baruwa, a married father of two, was arraigned before the court by the police after the victim, a daughter of his friend, filed a report. 

The prosecution told the court that Baruwa raped the girl on July 23, 2015, in Room 8 at the Faculty of Business Administration, Annex building, UNILAG when she came to seek admission into the institution. While delivering judgement in the one count of rape filed against him, the presiding judge, Justice Oyefeso, said the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.

“The offence committed against this young lady was a violation of her chastity which would have left huge emotional scars from which I pray and hope she will recover. I cannot begin to imagine the physical and mental trauma she has had to endure from the man who she considered her father’s friend, a community leader who should have known better. 

This is a shame. This is a crime that not only offends the survivor, it offends her family, it offends the society at large, it also offends God.  I find you Baruwa Afeez Akin guilty of a one-count charge of rape contrary to Section 258(1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos, 2011, and I hereby convict you accordingly.

In line with Section 258 of the Criminal Law of Lagos, 2011, Baruwa Afeez Akin is hereby sentenced to 21 years’ imprisonment.” she ruled.

Speaker Mubarak noted that this judgement will serve as a deterrent to other "Sex for admission or Sex for grades Lecturers" scattered all over the higher institutions in Nigeria.