Image caption: Silhouette of a man slapping a woman used as illustration
Commotion as provost allegedly slaps female student at LAUTECH Iseyin campus
Khalid ABRAHAM
There was commotion Thursday morning at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Iseyin campus as a 300 female student was allegedly given a “dirty slap” by the Provost of the college, Prof Gbenga Adewale.
According to the colleagues of the victim whose name could not be ascertained as at the time of filing this report, they were about to sit for an examination, AEE 301, when the incident happened.
“Yes, she received a dirty slap in the exam hall while we were preparing to write AEE 301. I did not really know why it happened,” an eyewitness told ogbomosoinsightonline.com on phone.
When spoken with by our correspondent the girl was weeping profusely and she did not say a word.
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Further investigations revealed that the students were to write the CBT in two batches based on their faculties. There are two faculties in the college.
“However, the first batch was being sidelined. The girl raised her voice that it was the turn of her batch, the provost who was around tried to caution her, she made to speak again and before you say Jack Robinson a hot slap had landed on her cheeks unleashed by the provost, Prof Adewale,” another eyewitness informed.
Efforts to speak with the provost were abortive as calls made to his mobile line were not answered even though he was on another call the first time just as a message sent to his line was ignored.
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insightonline.com recalls cases of harassment of students in the college in the past but previously it was internal security agents beating students with belt also during exams.
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In the meantime, it is learnt the students had written a petition (but to whom is not yet clear) demanding a probe into the incident.
