A lecturer at the Ogun State College of
Health Technology, Ilese Ijebu, Dr Oluseyi Adu, and a Dental Nursing
student, Mosunmola are in a controversial corner over who is responsible for
the pregnancy that the nursing student is carrying.
Mosunmola, who is nine months pregnant,
alleged that Adu was responsible for the child in her womb, adding that
they had sex in a hotel sometime in August, 2016.
She said the lecturer beat her up last
month when she confronted him at the college for avoiding her, adding
that the case was already at the Ilese Police Station.
However, while Adu admitted to having
sex with the 28-year-old, he insisted that he used contraceptive, saying
the lady seduced him and he gave in to the temptation.
Mosunmola told our correspondent that
she underwent a three-year course at the college, adding that several
lecturers had asked her out before Adu, but she refused.
She said, “Dr Adu is the Oral Health
Coordinator for the college. During my three years study, he taught me
two courses each semester. I have never failed his course.
“When I got to second semester, 300
level, he awarded me 38 in one of his courses. I went to his office in
August 2016 to know why I failed the course. I needed to pass all my
courses to be able to go for my board exam.
“He asked me if I thought I could just
come to the school and go like that. He said if I dated him, he would
waive the course. He said he didn’t approach me in 100 level because
another lecturer was interested in dating me.
“The lecturer he mentioned told me in
100 level that it was either I paid him money or used my body to pass
his course. Because I didn’t agree, I failed his course. I didn’t pass
it until I got to 300 level.
“I told Adu that I would date him, but I didn’t want to have any problem, and he assured me that there would be no regret.”
The victim said the lecturer took her to
the office of the Head of Department and after some discussions, it was
agreed that she could sit for the board exam.
After the board exam at POGIL College of
Health Technology, Oke-Eri, Ijebu Ode, on August 21, Adu, who was among
those on the panel, was said to have given Mosunmola some of his
practical instruments and a laptop for safekeeping.
However, Mosunmola said when the school
bus arrived to take the students back to the school, she forgot to give
the practical instruments back to the lecturer.
She said Adu later called and asked her to bring the instruments to a hotel where he lodged.
“I was preparing to leave when he called me back that I would be sleeping over with him.
“I met him with another lecturer in my
department. I observed that the lecturer also had a female student with
him. From the hotel, we went to different places before we finally
lodged in another hotel along Ilese Road. While I was with Adu in a
room, my other classmate passed the night with the second lecturer in
another room.
“We had three rounds of sex. He didn’t
release on time. He used two condoms for the first two rounds. The third
round was, however, flesh-to-flesh. That was when he ejaculated inside
me,” she explained.
She said the lecturer dropped her off at
home and they continued their relationship, until she stopped seeing
her menstruation a few weeks later.
The Ogun State indigene said she became
worried after she started vomiting, adding that she took a pregnancy
test, which was positive.
She said when Adu heard the news, he
reluctantly accepted responsibility, but allegedly gave her a drug,
Eprostol, to abort the pregnancy.
She said, “I refused to take the drug
because the prescription was not from a medical doctor. He came down to
my place to persuade me to take the drug, but I still refused. He asked
me what I wanted and I told him that I needed to change my accommodation
because the pregnancy was a shameful thing for me. He told me not to
worry, that he would handle it. After that, we had sex.
“When he left that day, I could not find
my phone again. By the time I got another phone and called him, he
started acting funny. Sometime, he would just laugh at me.”
PUNCH Metro learnt that several people had attempted to mediate in the situation without any success.
Mosunmola said attempts by Adu’s HOD, dean, and provost to mediate were rebuffed by the lecturer.
The victim said she later approached the
Human Rights Office of the Ogun State Ministry of Justice at Ijebu-Ode,
where a lawyer, one Kolade, called the parties for a meeting.
Adu was reported to have agreed to pay
N5,000 feeding allowance per month, in addition to paying N7,000 for
ante-natal registration.
After paying the allowance for two months, Adu reportedly stopped.
The parties reportedly held another meeting in March at the human rights office to review the agreement.
Conflict was said to have broken out
among the parties when Mosunmola presented a list of things required for
her delivery, which she valued at N50,000.
Adu was said to have insisted on paying N30,000, which the 28-year-old refused.
“I didn’t have any accommodation and I
couldn’t buy any of the drugs the doctors prescribed for me. I told him I
would only manage the N50,000. He left in annoyance.
“Since March, the lawyer didn’t call us
back and Adu refused to pay the N5,000 he used to give me every month. I
called the lawyer late March and asked him to help me get the N30,000,
but the lawyer said I should not call him again,” she said.
After reporting the lecturer to the
Permanent Secretary, Ogun State Ministry of Health, where Adu also
worked, without any result, Mosunmola said she became desperate and went
to the college on April 13 when she knew Adu would be taking a class.
She said while pleading with him for money for her medical expenses, the lecturer assaulted her.
She said some people intervened and she reported a case of assault to the police at the Ilese division, Ijebu Ode.
“I am now in my 38 weeks and anytime
soon, I will have my child. I am an orphan and I don’t have any of my
baby items ready. I am begging Nigerians to come to my rescue. I know I
have made a mistake, but I need a second chance at life. I don’t have
anywhere to go. It is a church that is accommodating me now,” she said.
When our correspondent reached out to
Adu to appeal to him to raise the N50,000 for the baby things, he said
he had no money and would not borrow because Mosunmola had turned him to
a “cash cow.”
He said he had already informed his wife
about the incident, adding that there was nothing that could surprise
him again as he had lost his credibility over the incident.
Adu said, “She was one of my students;
but on a personal level, I never knew her until after they released her
final results and she failed some courses, including mine.
“Her HOD asked her to come and ask me if
I could waive the course for her. She called me on the phone and came
to see me in the office. That was my first contact with this lady. When
she made her request, I met her HOD who said I should assist her. He
said even if I did, she might not sit for the board exam because of the
other courses she failed. So, I passed her.
“When they sat for the board exam, I was
surprised to see her and I asked her HOD why she wrote the exam when
she had other courses she failed. He said people begged for her.
“After the board exam, she came to thank
me for the assistance and she asked to carry my bag and the instruments
I used to conduct the exam. By the time she was leaving, I collected my
bag from her, but I forgot my instruments with her.
“That day, I went to hang out with my
friend at the pool of a hotel where we lodged. Suddenly, I remembered my
instruments and I called her to keep them well. But she said she could
come to where I was and she came. After dropping the instruments, she
didn’t leave as I expected and I decided not to bother her.
“We were together at the hotel till
evening. One thing led to the other. My brother, she slept in my room
that night and we had (sexual) intercourse. This was a girl I never
dated or had any relationship with.”
He said by weekend, Mosunmola called him
that she was pregnant, adding that she later said she was only joking
about it and wanted to see his reaction.
Adu said the call made him to stop
communicating with Mosunmola and he did not respond anytime she called,
until she sent him a text message saying the pregnancy had become real.
He said, “I decided to travel down to
Ijebu to see her. She brought out the test result and said I was
responsible. I told her I used a condom and she couldn’t tell me that my
condom burst. She said if I was afraid because I was married, I should
not bother because the pregnancy actually belonged to her boyfriend and
she merely wanted to see my reaction. I warned her and left.
“The next time she called me, she said
how would she take my pregnancy to her boyfriend, and that I should take
responsibility for it. She said she would abort the pregnancy if I
wanted her to, but I must rent a house for her in Ijebu Ode and then she
described the kind of house she wanted.
“When I heard that, I told her to do her
worst, because it was obvious to me that she just wanted to blackmail
me. She had been going round different places, telling people that I
impregnated her. The question I ask is, did I rape her? Did I hypnotise
her? You came to meet me where I was and we had fun, and now you are
pregnant, and you are telling me I am responsible for a pregnancy I am
denying?”
He said before Mosunmola could reach his wife, he quickly reported himself to her and begged for her forgiveness.
The medical practitioner said he
reluctantly agreed to pay the N5,000 after much persuasion by the human
rights lawyer, adding that he regretted the agreement because Mosunmola
used it to make more demands on him.
“When she brought the list for the baby
things, I asked her, ‘Why are you making me as if I am the father of
your baby? Am I your husband?
“She suddenly flared up and said I
should even go away that she didn’t want anything from me again. She
cursed me and after that encounter, I decided to stop giving her
anything,” he added.
He said Mosunmola came to attack him
during the lecture. He said she was about stripping him naked when he
forcefully detached himself from her.
Adu explained that the case of assault
against him at the Ilese division had been thrown out after he told the
police the student was the aggressor.
“People impregnate people and nothing happens. Why is she treating me as if I had done something criminal?
“The worst that will happen now is for me to die. I am not a young man; if I die, people will cry and I will be done.
“But I also ask myself, what if the
pregnancy is mine? My prayer now is for her to deliver safely and we
will determine the paternity of the child,” he said.
The Ogun State Police Public Relations
Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said he would get back to our corrrespondent
after speaking with the Ilese DPO.
He had yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.
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