A senior lecturer of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), has landed in
trouble for extorting N100, 000 from a female student. The lecturer (name withheld),
who is in the Faculty of Law was arrested by the university’s security
personnel and handed over to the police after he allegedly collected the marked
money from the student to change her course of study from English Language to
Law.
It was gathered that the
student, who could not immediately raise the money, following pressure
mounted on her by the lecturer, reported to another lecturer, who decried the
planned extortion and encouraged her to formally lodge a complaint with the
higher authority in the institution. Following the advice, the student
played along and called the lecturer that she could only raise N100, 000, which
she was promptly directed to pay into a certain account given her by the
lecturer.
Luck, however, ran against the
lecturer when he called the girl’s mobile phone, asking her to discontinue
the bank arrangement and instead, to bring the money to him in his office, just
when she was going to pay the money into the bank account earlier given to her.
Sources told Daily Sun that no sooner that the female student delivered the
marked money to the lecturer than the alerted personnel from the security
unit swooped on the unsuspecting lecturer and handed him over to the police.
A search in the lecturer’s
office by the university security personnel was said to have led to the
discovery of a list of 18 students, including the female student who paid the
N100, 000.00. When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the
university, Mr Harrison Osarenren, confirmed the report, saying “with the
arrest, we will try and rid the system of bad eggs.”
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