A 400-level female student from the University of Benin (UNIBEN) has been allegedly raped by a senior lecturer in the Department of English and Literature, Faculty of Arts in the institution.
According to reports, the alleged victim was said to have gone to the lecturer’s office to submit her final year project when she was raped.
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The incident which occurred on October 5, 2021 became a public knowledge when a video purportedly recorded when the lecturer was begging for forgiveness went viral, as reported by PUNCH.
However, the video was discovered when a course mate of the female student told the medium about the video and the news of the alleged rape was first circulated on the class WhatsApp platform.
The source said, “The news of the incident was first reported on our class WhatsApp group. A video was posted which showed the lecturer pleading for forgiveness and regretting his action.
“The lady was able to contact an unnamed friend, who, with UNIBEN’s security operatives, rescued her.
“The lecturer was arrested by UNIBEN’s security officials, taken to the university’s administrative block and questioned.”
No official statement has been released yet from the institution.
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