The Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) yesterday suspended one of its lecturers, Dr. Desen Jonathan Mbachaga, over an alleged sexual harassment.
Mbachaga was, until his suspension yesterday, an Associate Professor in the institution’s Department of Theatre and Media Arts.
His suspension came after a committee inaugurated by the Institution to investigate the alleged sexual harrassment established a prima facie evidence against Mbachaga.
According to a statement made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti by the media office of FUOYE Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina, and signed by the Chief Information Officer to the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Foluso Ogunmodede, Mbachaga was suspended on the grounds of a prima facie evidence of sexual harrassment established against him by a panel set up by the Institution’s Faculty of Arts, which investigated the allegation.
However, the suspension which was with immediate effect would pave the way for a five-member Committee set up by the Vice-Chancellor to further probe the allegation with a view to getting to the root of the allegation of sexual harrassment against the embattled lecturer.
In the statement, Ogunmodede said “the Vice-Chancellor of FUOYE, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina, who has zero tolerance for indiscipline and any form of sexual harrassment against students of the Institution, has consequently approved the suspension of Dr. Mbachaga to allow for proper investigation into the matter.”
Besides, the “VC has also mandated the Dean Faculty of Arts, Prof. Tajudeen Opoola to conduct proper investigation into another allegation of sexual harrassment against another lecture in the same department, Dr. Agofure and submit a report in due time for neccesary actions.”
The current management of the University will do its best to clean the system of all social vices.
