A Bauchi based Non-governmental Organization, Prison Inmate Development Initiative has accused the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi of a desperate attempt to shield Mr. Musa Baba Abubakar, a lecturer with the Department of General Studies who it says has been notorious for defiling and raping female students.
The Organization in a letter sent to Bauchi State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, seen by Arewa Reporters said the Polytechnic was “offer cover to a lecturer adjudged a serial rapist.”
“The management of Federal Polytechnic Bauchi, Nigeria has displayed an act, suggesting a tactic to offer cover to a lecturer adjudged a serial rapist, sexual harasser and intimidator of Female Students in the institution without making it public for prosecution.
“The lecturer, having defiled one seventeen-year-old female student was caught red-handed by the Rector of the school accordingly; accused of sexually molesting many female students and forcing himself on them”, PIDI said in the letter seen by this medium.
The Organization said the lecturer was accorded pardon by the polytechnic, an omen that contravenes the state’s VAPP laws.
The organization quoted the 17-year-old girl as saying that “”He took a knife and threatened me that if I don’t agree to have sex with him, he will injure me. I was very scared, then he came close to me, used his hands and pulled down my clothes by the waist side leaving the rest of my clothes and raped me; there was blood and it was my first time.”
PIDI accused the polytechnic of negating existing laws that frowns at sexual harassment in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions.
“We observed that the management of federal polytechnic Bauchi has become the Chief Law Officer i.e The Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, for giving a legal advice on un-compoundable offences.
“FINALLY; we demand that the management of Federal Polytechnic Bauchi should immediately furnish the office of the Attorney General & Commissioner of Justice, with the outcomes of the committee findings on the alleged offence for prosecution.
“PIDI-Nigeria is in possession of unequivocal evidence to drag both the polytechnic, its principal officers and the lecturer to court should those responsible to hold the culprit accountable fail to do their work”, the Organization added.
