The management has become the Chief Law Officer; The Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, for giving a legal advice on un-compoundable offences – PIDI
* The predator lecturer with a knife in hand threatened that if I didn’t agree to have sex with him, he would injure me. He pulled down my clothes by the waist side and defiled me; there was blood. No man has ever touched me – 17-year old survivor
The Periscope Reporter
Non-governmental Organization with the name Prison Inmate Development Initiative, PIDI, based in Bauchi state, northeast Nigeria has accused the management of Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi of unmanaged unconscious bias by desperate attempt to shield one Mr. Musa Baba Abubakar, a so-called lecturer with the Department of General Studies who the NGO alleged, has been notorious for predatory act of raping students.
PIDI in a letter sent to Bauchi State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, seen by Arewa Reporters alleged that the management of the Polytechnic was offering cover to a lecturer adjudged as 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 17-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 the medium.
PIDI alleged that the said the lecturer was accorded pardon by the polytechnic, an omen that contravened the state’s VAPP laws.
PIDI quoted the 17-year old girl as saying ”He took a knife and threatened me that if I didn’t agree to have sex with him, he would 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 defiled me; there was blood. No man has ever touched me.”
PIDI said the management of the polytechnic has negated existing laws that frown 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.