Student In Sexual Harassment From Lecturer In UNIBEN

A student in the Faculty of Education at the University of Benin is poised for a show down with one of their lecturers whose alleged stock in trade is luring female students to bed. The lecturer and former Head of Department, Dr. S.N Omobude Idialo, has allegedly been sexaually harassing female students in the department.Recently, Dr. S.N. Omobude Idialo was accused by one Blessig Igbineweka of making life difficult for her through incessant sexual harassment. In a petition written by the student and dated 3rd October,2008 and addressed to the Vice Chancellor in the petition, she wrote that “ I am Blessing Igbineweka of Health Education Department with matriculation number EDU/04/0907, I became a victim of this lecturer in my first year in 200 level when he asked everybody to submit their assignment individually to him in the office. When it was my turn, he took my assignment and asked me to write my phone number which I did. Ever since then it has been one form of sexual harassment or the other. I complained to my parent, my friends, course mates, class rep and my brother who is a full time student of this department. They said he was like that that and that there is nothing I can do about it. I only tried to play smart by refusing to visit when he asked me to visit and the few times I visited, I only had sad experience as he does all manner of things to me in his office. She said, she told him that she has just gotten a new job and that her work will not let her attend class regularly. He told her that he will have to contact another lecturer but she must see him in his office another time.Blessing said that she always does her assignments and has brought all the textbooks she required. She came back one weekend after the exams to thank him for his support and understanding, suddenly he grabbed her and almost raped her. Blessing told him that she is old enough to marry and that she is not ready for anything like that. However when the results came out and checked her result she noticed that she failed his course. In Blessing’s statement she has never failed any course since resuming for the course. I think since I am married now and he feels he can’t have me again that is why he is failing me in his course.