The University of Lagos, Akoka, has set up a panel to investigate two of its lecturers accused of sexually harassing undercover reporters purportedly seeking admission and change the course of study in the institution.
Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu of the Department of European Languages and Integrated Studies, Faculty of Arts, and Dr Samuel Oladipo of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, were caught on video in a British Broadcasting Corporation documentary sexually harassing undercover reporters, who sought favour from them.
The institution had announced the suspension of Igbeneghu on Monday, while Oladipo was suspended on Tuesday.
The UNILAG management said on Wednesday through the Principal Assistant Registrar, Communication Unit, Taiwo Oloyede, that it had set up a panel to investigate the two lecturers and other related cases.
It stated that it was awaiting information from the panel set up in June 2018 to investigate allegation of sexual harassment another professor.
Oloyede urged students and members of staff with relevant information that could help the new panel to come forward, adding that their identities would be protected.
She said in a statement, “The University of Lagos management has set up a panel headed by Ayodele Atsenuwa, a professor of Public Law, Faculty of Law, and the incumbent Dean of the faculty.
“The panel will probe allegations of sexual harassment levelled against Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu of the Department of European Languages and Integrated Studies, Faculty of Arts, and Dr. Samuel Oladipo of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences as well as other related cases.
“We firmly reassure all our students, staff, alumni, parents and guardians that this matter will be tackled with every sense of responsibility and the seriousness it deserves. The whole process will be transparent and appropriate sanctions will be meted out to anyone found culpable.”
Some students of UNILAG have said cases of sex-for-grades are not strange in the institution, adding that the management has not acted on previously reported cases.