The Senate of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Rumu-lumeni has expelled three male students over the gang rape of a female student inside a male hostel of the University in October last year.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Professor Ozo-Ndimele Mekuri.
He listed their names as:
Mr. Nnamdi Destiny – UE/2018/POL.SC/BSc4/0062 – Political Science – Involved in a gang rape of a female student in the hostel.
- Mr. Samuel Valentine – UE/2017/POL.SC/BSc4/2059 – Political Science – Involved in a gang rape of a female student in the hostel.
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Mr. Chukwuemeka Amajuoyi – UE/THA/BA4/0019 – Theatre and Film Studies – Involved in a gang rape of a female student in the hostel.
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Mr. Ovunwo Henry Junior- (Level 100 Not yet issued Mat. No as at the time of the incident)
Others are Mr. Bekwele Ogbondah Godspower – UE/ACCT/B.ED4/0100 – Accounting Dept.- who defrauded his fellow students of their school’s fees and issued them fake online University receipts. The majority of the victims in Level 100 in the 2019/2020 session lost their admission.
Mr. Linus Hans – UE/2018/BSc.Ed4/0525 – Accounting Dept. – Phone Theft (stole a fellow student’s phone).
Meanwhile, the Centre For Basic Rights Protection And Accountability Campaign has commended the institution for the bold step.
Miss Uzoma Kelechi, head of Women mobilization of the group in a statement on Wednesday said the Senate of the institution has proven that issues of sexual violence do not have a place in the institution.
The statement thanked the institution for reinstalling public confidence in the safety of students particularly female students on the campus by ensuring that appropriate sanction was meted out to perpetrators of the dastardly act against the female year 1 student.
The group said the sanction will serve as a deterrent to others and commended the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Professor Ozo-mekuri Ndimele for keeping to his word, recalling that the Vice-Chancellor had assured the Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign when the group contacted him on the matter, that the institution will ensure justice is served.
