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A lecturer at the Lagos State University, Ojo, is currently being interrogated by the police over an alleged attempt to rape one of his students.
A lecturer at the Lagos State University, Ojo, is currently being interrogated by the police over an alleged attempt to rape one of his students.
The incident happened at Ajilo Hotel, Ketu, where the teacher (name withheld), was said to have taken the female student to after an outing.
The PUNCH had exclusively reported last week that 134 women and 379 men were being detained by the police in Lagos in connection with 423 cases of rape.
The teacher was said to have invited the student for the outing on Tuesday and our correspondent learnt that both tutor and student later retired to the hotel after they had visited a number of places.
At the hotel, the man and the woman were said to have enjoyed a sumptuous meal and some drinks before they finally settled in one of the rooms.
It was the shouts emanating from the room that jolted some of the hotel attendants, who were later joined by other good Samaritans to extricate the lady from her teacher.
The student told the hotel attendants that the teacher had demanded to have sex with her and she had refused to accede to his demand, but he (the teacher) resorted to force and began to undress her.
The lady said she tried all she could within her strength to keep the teacher's hands off her but resorted to shouting when it dawned on her that the man was getting an upper hand and could succeed in raping her.
The case was reported at a police station and policemen visited the scene of the attempted rape. The man was arrested and taken to the police station where he is being detained.
Both teacher and student were said to have made statements to the police on the incident. But our correspondent gathered that the teacher maintained that he never attempted to rape the student as she had followed him out on consent.
Spokesman for the state police command, Mr. Olubode Ojajuni, a deputy superintendent of police, who confirmed the incident to our correspondent, noted that the case would soon be transferred to the state Criminal Investigation Department, Panti Street, Yaba, for investigation.
The Punch, Thursday, June 09, 2005