Sex-for-mark scandal: Court declines bail of OAU ex-lecturer

The Federal High Court in Osogbo, Osun State, yesterday declined the bail application of a former Obafemi Awolowo University’s lecturer, Professor Richard Akindele, on the case instituted against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission over his alleged attempt to have sex with a student, Miss Monica Osagie.

When the lecturer was first arraigned at the court by ICPC on November 19, 2018, the court refused to release him on bail and remanded him in prison.

At the court yesterday, Akindele’s counsel, Francis Omotosho, said a 14-paragraph affidavit in support of the bail application of his client had been forwarded to the court with a written address. He urged the court to release the lecturer on bail pending the final determination of the case.

But ICPC Senior Legal Officer, Kehinde Adetoye, again opposed the bail application of the lecturer, saying the professor would not stand his trial if released on bail.

The ICPC counsel told the court that the lecturer refused to appear at the commission’s office in Abuja after a written agreement to honour any invitation extended to him.

Justice Maureen Onyetenu, in her ruling, declined the bail application and ordered that the lecturer be returned to prison.

She adjourned December 17.

She noted that the lecturer would remain in the prison to allow more evidence from the prosecution counsel on why the lecturer should not be allowed to face the trail on bail.

She also ordered the prosecution counsel to produce video evidence of the lecturer and his student having fun before the next adjournment the case to