Global video-sharing website, YouTube, has removed a clip showing a lecturer at the Department of Languages and Linguistics of the Osun State University, Dr. Wale Ojoniyi, and a 400 level English student of the institution, Mercy Ikwue.
According to YouTube, the video was removed for violating its policy on nudity and sexual content.
The student, who released the over 30-minute video clip, recorded it in a hotel room.
There was no penetrative sex or any attempt by the man in the video to coerce the student to cooperate with him.
In a petition written to The Punch, some students of the university claimed Ojoniyi was instrumental to the suspension of the female student, after she was allegedly caught for examination malpractices.
On her return to the university after the one academic session rustication, the petition claimed the lecturer mounted pressure on the student for an amorous affair but the lady resisted him.
It was further learnt that the lady confided in some persons, who advised her to set a trap for the 40-year-old lecturer by agreeing to his love advances.
She eventually went to the agreed hotel room and met him.
In the video, which went viral online, the female student set up a laptop directly opposite the bed and pretended to be watching Things Fall Apart movie on it but she was secret recording activities in the room.
The man in the video was seen stark naked and caressing the student occasionally.
In the video, Ikwue was seen throwing her blue top on the bed from an angle she knew the camera could not cover. She also ensured that the camera lens did not capture her when she removed her trousers.
The female student could be heard at some point saying, “Give me my transport. I am not asking for any other money; just give me my transport fare.
“Why is your thing (private part) dropping like this, haven’t you done it in recent time.
“Before I went on suspension, why didn’t you plead on my behalf? You knew about it joo.”
Reacting to the video, Ojoniyi told The Punch, “People can do anything, but I cannot be brought down.”
The embattled lecturer has written many articles, one of which is titled “Violence as Intentionality for Survival and Power in Two Yoruba Films”.
- Additional reports from Punch
