Courageous Victim of Lecturer Sexual Abuse Stages Lone Protest on KASU Campus

[Moses Ebe Ochonu]

For me, this courageous woman (I don't know her name) wins the internet today. What a fighter! What an amazon! What an inspiration! She will not be silent. Conviction and the quest for justice are not about multitudes. She's reclaiming her dignity and will not rest until the animal who raped her in ABU is truly punished. What's the point of punishing these sexual predators if they are dismissed from one university (ABU) and then promptly get hired by another (Kaduna State University, KASU) to continue from where they stopped? Like Dr. A. B Umar, Professor Solomon Atere, who raped and impregnated and then forced a 16 year old student in his FUOYE department, was able to resign without any consequences and promptly got a job at the nearby Olabisi Onabanjo University. He is still employed there and may be preying on new student-victims. This is why, in my solutions essay on the Nigerian university crisis, I recommended the establishment of a national database of lecturers dismissed for sexual offenses and ethical violations, which universities considering the application of a prospective lecturer would consult. #SexForGrades

[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

Tragic

On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 13:54, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meoc...@gmail.com> wrote:

For me, this courageous woman (I don't know her name) wins the internet today. What a fighter! What an amazon! What an inspiration! She will not be silent. Conviction and the quest for justice are not about multitudes. She's reclaiming her dignity and will not rest until the animal who raped her in ABU is truly punished. What's the point of punishing these sexual predators if they are dismissed from one university (ABU) and then promptly get hired by another (Kaduna State University, KASU) to continue from where they stopped? Like Dr. A. B Umar, Professor Solomon Atere, who raped and impregnated and then forced a 16 year old student in his FUOYE department, was able to resign without any consequences and promptly got a job at the nearby Olabisi Onabanjo University. He is still employed there and may be preying on new student-victims. This is why, in my solutions essay on the Nigerian university crisis, I recommended the establishment of a national database of lecturers dismissed for sexual offenses and ethical violations, which universities considering the application of a prospective lecturer would consult. #SexForGrades

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[DOYIN AGUORU]

Dear Prof, 

I am with you on the establishment of a database that ensures that all such fellows are not rehired.

Good work. 

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 1:54 PM Moses Ebe Ochonu <meoc...@gmail.com> wrote:

For me, this courageous woman (I don't know her name) wins the internet today. What a fighter! What an amazon! What an inspiration! She will not be silent. Conviction and the quest for justice are not about multitudes. She's reclaiming her dignity and will not rest until the animal who raped her in ABU is truly punished. What's the point of punishing these sexual predators if they are dismissed from one university (ABU) and then promptly get hired by another (Kaduna State University, KASU) to continue from where they stopped? Like Dr. A. B Umar, Professor Solomon Atere, who raped and impregnated and then forced a 16 year old student in his FUOYE department, was able to resign without any consequences and promptly got a job at the nearby Olabisi Onabanjo University. He is still employed there and may be preying on new student-victims. This is why, in my solutions essay on the Nigerian university crisis, I recommended the establishment of a national database of lecturers dismissed for sexual offenses and ethical violations, which universities considering the application of a prospective lecturer would consult. #SexForGrades

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[Obododimma Oha]

Really frightening! And annoying, too!
Sincerely,
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[Obododimma Oha]

Quite right. In Nigeria, such felons run to their protectors and are
re-hired! So, past sexual misdemeanors are bygones?

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[Moses Ebe Ochonu]

ASUU is threatening to go on strike if the government insists on implementing the new IPPIS salary payment system on lecturers (a system that has already been implemented for all federal civi service workers). 

This putrid, outmoded union wants to go on strike if its members (whom, God forbid, should be subjected to any transparency and accountability mechanism) are not treated as special workers separate from others. 

This same union threatened to go on strike if the last senate passed the higher education sexual harassment bill. Their threat worked and the bill died.

If there is a bigger example of a trade union that is a threat to the very industry it claims to represent, I have not seen it. 

If there is a trade union that is a bigger refuge for all manner of misfits, conmen, and predators, and a more determined opponent of progressive change and transparency in our country, I haven't seen it. 

The question is, when will ASUU threaten to strike on behalf of the thousands, if not millions, of student-victims of lecturers' sexual abuses, extortions, and tyrannical treatment of students? When will they threaten to strike on behalf of the young lady protester in the photo above and others like her?

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[Victor Okafor]

My heart truly goes out to her. I feel for her. This is a rare heroic act when it's extremely difficult to be courageous. Nigeria's Attorney-General and Minister for Justice must step into this matter. As subscribers to this forum, we may have to draft and collectively sign and email a group petition to Nigeria's Attorney-General for a federal-level investigation into her's and similar cases. Her heroic act must not be allowed to go to waste! She also needs governmental protection.

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 8:54 AM Moses Ebe Ochonu <meoc...@gmail.com> wrote:

For me, this courageous woman (I don't know her name) wins the internet today. What a fighter! What an amazon! What an inspiration! She will not be silent. Conviction and the quest for justice are not about multitudes. She's reclaiming her dignity and will not rest until the animal who raped her in ABU is truly punished. What's the point of punishing these sexual predators if they are dismissed from one university (ABU) and then promptly get hired by another (Kaduna State University, KASU) to continue from where they stopped? Like Dr. A. B Umar, Professor Solomon Atere, who raped and impregnated and then forced a 16 year old student in his FUOYE department, was able to resign without any consequences and promptly got a job at the nearby Olabisi Onabanjo University. He is still employed there and may be preying on new student-victims. This is why, in my solutions essay on the Nigerian university crisis, I recommended the establishment of a national database of lecturers dismissed for sexual offenses and ethical violations, which universities considering the application of a prospective lecturer would consult. #SexForGrades

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[Moses Ebe Ochonu]

An update from Kaduna State University says the predator, A. B Umar, has been suspended and a committee has been set up to investigate him and the circumstances of his hiring after he was dismissed from ABU for sexually preying on students. The statement says Umar "was employed in error"--whatever that means. Read story at the link below

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/sex-for-grade-kasu-blows-hot-suspends-a-b-umar.html?fbclid=IwAR3OfW_sS59miVY2iF39zv0hZsjbtc79VhSIe4HyWJ5yHWCONsG-zIAMFRo

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[OLAYINKA AGBETUYI]

Obododinma:

Why do you think its frightening and annoying?

I have stated my own reservations on the fact that I know of no such database either in the US where Moses Ochonu works or anywhere in the advanced countries perhaps on the issue of the rights of the lecturers involved.  Why should Nigeria be different?

Moses in repeating this line ignores my query on the grounds he blocked my mails but really because he shies away from those who pose difficult questions despite his specious bravado.

Perhaps you will forward this post to him to assist in your response.

OAA

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Really frightening! And annoying, too!
Sincerely,
Obododimma.

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[Moses Ebe Ochonu]

The latest update, as twitted out by Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, is that the suspension of A.B Umar "is the first step" and that 15 other lecturers who were sacked by ABU for sexually abusing students and were then hired by Kaduna State University, KASU, will be investigated and eventually prosecuted. It now seems clear that KASU has been a refuge and "soft landing" spot for sexual predators fired from nearby ABU. These guys can even continue to  live in in their cozy homes in Zaria and commute to Kaduna to teach. In other words, instead of being punished or suffering any consequence for their crimes, they simply move to the neighboring university and continue where they left off, producing more student-victims.

Let this sink in: 16 lecturers dismissed for sexually preying on students in ABU promptly found a new home in KASU. This tells you that the system is populated by predators who look out for one another and make sure to rehabilitate those who are caught and fired. I would not be surprised to find some people in ABU who were fired from other places for sexual and ethical offenses. Nor would it surprise me if A. B Umar, upon being fired from KASU, finds employment in another institution in the region. It is a racket of evil that ensures the recycling of these monsters. 

And, of course, ASUU is silent on this but is curiously threatening to go on strike to protest the implementation of a salary payment transparency mechanism by the FG. Shame.

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 7:24 PM Victor Okafor <vok...@emich.edu> wrote:

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[OLAYINKA AGBETUYI]

We will await the Kaduna State investigation and conclude whether its one hit and you are out:  that is it will establish the propensity for re-offending among the convicted lecturers/ remorse and repentance (this cannot be assumed.)

OAA

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The latest update, as twitted out by Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, is that the suspension of A.B Umar "is the first step" and that 15 other lecturers who were sacked by ABU for sexually abusing students and were then hired by Kaduna State University, KASU, will be investigated and eventually prosecuted. It now seems clear that KASU has been a refuge and "soft landing" spot for sexual predators fired from nearby ABU. These guys can even continue to  live in in their cozy homes in Zaria and commute to Kaduna to teach. In other words, instead of being punished or suffering any consequence for their crimes, they simply move to the neighboring university and continue where they left off, producing more student-victims.

Let this sink in: 16 lecturers dismissed for sexually preying on students in ABU promptly found a new home in KASU. This tells you that the system is populated by predators who look out for one another and make sure to rehabilitate those who are caught and fired. I would not be surprised to find some people in ABU who were fired from other places for sexual and ethical offenses. Nor would it surprise me if A. B Umar, upon being fired from KASU, finds employment in another institution in the region. It is a racket of evil that ensures the recycling of these monsters. 

And, of course, ASUU is silent on this but is curiously threatening to go on strike to protest the implementation of a salary payment transparency mechanism by the FG. Shame.

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[Victor Okafor]

The bottom line is that our Nigerian universities need a cultural revolution which will set as an operative norm, a principle that an instructor-of-record or research supervisor should not become sexually involved with his or her student, and should not demand or receive any financial inducement from his/her student in exchange for a favorable course grade. Any instructor of record who demonstrably violates that policy should be summarily dismissed. On the other hand, if a student approaches an instructor-of-record and attempts to induce that instructor with sex or money or both in return for a favorable course grade, that student should be referred to the Student Code of Conduct Tribunal for trial and expulsion.  Nothing short of an effective zero tolerance policy can bring about the afore-mentioned and badly-needed Cultural Revolution on our Nigerian university campuses. That's the bottom line!

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[OLAYINKA AGBETUYI]

Agreed without equivocation!

OAA

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The bottom line is that our Nigerian universities need a cultural revolution which will set as an operative norm, a principle that an instructor-of-record or research supervisor should not become sexually involved with his or her student, and should not demand or receive any financial inducement from his/her student in exchange for a favorable course grade. Any instructor of record who demonstrably violates that policy should be summarily dismissed. On the other hand, if a student approaches an instructor-of-record and attempts to induce that instructor with sex or money or both in return for a favorable course grade, that student should be referred to the Student Code of Conduct Tribunal for trial and expulsion.  Nothing short of an effective zero tolerance policy can bring about the afore-mentioned and badly-needed Cultural Revolution on our Nigerian university campuses. That's the bottom line!

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