Florence Uwaeme
A lecturer in the Department of Business Management at the Covenant University Ota, Ogun State, Dr Stephen Ukenna, has been arrested for the alleged rape of a minor.
According to the police spokesperson Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi, Dr Ukenna was arrested on March 11 for forcefully having carnal knowledge of a 17-year-old minor- who happens to be a student of the same school.
After a complaint was laid at the Ota Area Command by the parents of the victim, the 41-year-old lecturer was arrested.
The parents of the victim told the police that the lecturer had invited their daughter to his office in the guise of planning a surprise birthday party for her close friend.
However, “on getting to his office, the lecturer locked the office door and forcefully had sex with her on the table in his office,” the Ogun police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, has said on Tuesday.
The suspect admitted to having carnal knowledge of the victim after being interrogated but was unable to give any reasons for his action.
