The University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) has launched investigations into an allegation that a lecturer sexually assaulted a year-one female student of the institution.
According to reports, the lecturer – whose name was kept under wraps, teaches Foreign Languages and Literatures and allegedly committed the act at the student’s off-campus room at Aluu in Ikwere Local Government Area of Rivers State, where he was subsequently beaten by some aggrieved male students after an alarm was raised.
The Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign also noted that, as a result of the incident, the student could not turn up to write examinations on the courses handled by the suspect
Speaking on the matter, the National Coordinator of the centre, Prince Wiro, urged the university to give fair hearing to the parties involved in the matter and bring any one found culpable to book, even as the university’s Public Relations Officer, Sam Kpenu, said the university was already investigating the matter.
