Lagos begins trial of lecturer for alleged student rape

A part-time lecturer of the Department of Primary Education and Early Childhood Development of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Oto-Ijanikin, Lagos, Kolawole Muyiwa, on Monday, appeared before the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, presided over by Justice Ramon Oshodi, on trial for the alleged rape of a student.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the Lagos State Government had on February 6, 2023, arraigned the lecturer over the alleged rape of the victim, to which he pleaded not guilty.

Muyiwa, according to the prosecution counsel, B. T. Boye and I. D Solarin, is facing a count of rape as made against him by the Lagos State Government.

The prosecution counsel disclosed that the incident occurred on October 11, 2021, at the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Oto-Ijanikin, Lagos State, adding that Muyiwa had committed the alleged rape which contravenes Section 260 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

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PUNCH Metro further gathered that the victim, 18 years old at the time of the incident, was a full-time student of the Department of Primary Education and allegedly had decided to help Muyiwa record scores in an office when the incident occurred.

During the trial and cross-examination of the defence’s first witness, the defendant, Kolawole Muyiwa, disclosed to the court that he is a married man with children and that he had asked the prosecutrix to be in a relationship with him, to which she allegedly accepted.

“On October 11, 2021, at about 9:30 to 10:00 in the morning, I was coming to the college to record and submit scripts to the School of Part-Time Studies. On getting to the gate, I met Damilola. She greeted me and said she would help me carry my bag, I asked if she could record scores, and she said no problem.

“I went to the office, the place we keep the key and I took the key and opened the office. We both entered the office, and I gave her the scripts to record, which she did. She told me she had a meeting and I told her if they finished the meeting, she could come back and record, which she obliged. Probably, they did not start, so she came back and I gave her (the scripts) to record, and she recorded them. They brought light, she was charging her phone and I asked her for a relationship and she accepted.