A student leader, Awoyinfa Opeoluwa, has been accused of drugging and raping a female student of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA).
Twitter user, Samzy (@SamzyVG), made the allegations in a series of tweets on his Twitter handle late Tuesday night.
According to report, the victim who earlier got the accused arrested and detained at the police station later settled for “out-of-court settlement” where she demanded for a Ten Million Naira (N10,000,000) compensation for damages.
He said the suspect bargained for a Three Hundred Thousand Naira (N300,000) compensation which he claimed was paid to the victim and the accused was thereafter granted bail and allowed to go home.
It was gathered that the accused person is an alumnus of FUTA and Public Relations Officer of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Southwest zone D, while his alleged victim is a 500-level student of Animal, Production, FUTA.
Samzy said: “RAPE: An Alumnus of the Federal University of Technology Akure identified as Awoyinfa Opeoluwa who is also a NANS Executive has been accused of drugging, Raping and Blackmailing a 500L female student from the department of Animal, Production & Health…
“The Victim who proceeded to arrest the accused & had the Suspect detained at Wesco Police Station, FUTA Northgate Akure. Reportedly the Victim demanded for Compensation of #10,000,000 naira due to Damages out of the Court premises to settle the case.
“Reportedly she was Paid a Sum of #300,000 naira Compensation while the Suspect was granted Bail and allowed to Go home.”
Source… https://twitter.com/SamzyVG/status/1557102942427254784?t=BjQB1V1d7y9juCyz8kBBLQ&s=19
Meanwhile, a group, Female National, the apex body of female students advocating for the “legitimate interest” of every Nigerian female student, has since indicated interest in the case.
Taking to Twitter, while commenting under the rape post, the group wrote, “Thank you for blowing the whistle, please note that the leadership of @FemaleNational both at the national and Ondo state level has taken this up since yesterday.
“But till this morning, the state Chairperson who’s also the former SUG VP of FUTA couldn’t get in touch with victim.
“We will update you under this tweet as we progress. Thanks.”
Meanwhile, all efforts to speak with the accused person to hear his own side of the story proved abortive as at the time of filing this report.
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