Read the accusation here https://www.nairaland.com/3019194/samuel-olorunfemi-adams-uniabuja-lecturer-accused#44249622

Following the news of student harassment by a Uniabuja lecturer that broke out yesterday, TheNews.NG decided to reach out to parties involved we were able to speak on phone with both Mr Samuel Olorunfemi Adam and Miss Kemi Obaditan.



Mr Samuel Olorunfemi Adams side of the story:

We got a phone call phone Mr Samuel Olorunfemi Adams asking us to take the story down as it was affecting his image, He also stated that many of his colleagues have been trying to reach him on the issue which is very embarrassing.

Here’s an excerpt of the conversation between Mr Adams and TheNews.NG’s correspondent Olawale Adeniyi

Mr Adams: Hello, good afternoon my name is Mr Samuel Olorunfemi Adams there’s a story on your news platform stating that I harrased a student of Uniabuja. The story is all lie, please i need you to take it down I am innocent.

TheNews.NG: Sir, we can’t take the story down just like that, its against the ethics of balanced reporting, we need to speak to the two parties involved to ascertain that you are truely innocent. would you be willing to tell us your side of the story?

Mr Adams: Yes

TheNews.NG: please tell us exactly what happened?

Mr Adams: On the day the incident happened, I instructed students to move the next hall to write their exam every other student moved but she refused. she stated that i was a wicked lecturer and that she’s heard a lot about me and that she was not going to move in the course of that her phone fell and broke.

TheNews.NG: She said you broke the phone?

Mr Adams: Here’s what happened, she asked me t give her the phone and i insisted that she fill the exam malpracices booklet, she refused, she insulted my family, she said my family couldn’t afford a Blackberry phone this got me angry, so I smashed it on the ground.

TheNews.NG: Did you flog her with your belt?

Mr Adams: No I did not, I only tried to scare her with the belt and the belt mistakenly touch her. Then she jacked my collar.

TheNews.NG: Why did you insist that she fill an examination malpractices form since the offence she commited was not related to exam malpractice?

Mr Adams: You see in exam there are rules and regulations, she was given the form because she disobeyed a lecturer and it is against the school rule. I instructed her to leave the hall and go to the next hall but she refused, secondly she held my collar and it was her fellow students who rescued me from her.

TheNews.NG: But that is still not exam malpractice, why insist on an exam malpractice form?

Mr Adams: keeps mute

TheNews.NG: Peradventure you both meet in the court of law over this matter do you have any witness in your favour?

Mr Adams: I don’t have witnesses i don’t know any of the students, please I just visited your website the story is still there, when are you going to take it down?

TheNews.NG: We wont take it down until investigations into the case are concluded.

Here’s an excerpt of the conversation between Kemi Obaditan and TheNews.NG’s correspondent

TheNews.NG: Can you tell us exactly what happened?

Kemi: On the 11th of December 2011 U came into school that morning to write a Chemistry examination scheduled to hold that day at 9am. The exam started at the time stated and while I sat in the hall assigned by my department for her students, Mr. Samuel Olorunfemi Adams came in to speak with the invigilator on duty while the answer booklet was being shared. He requested that half of the students should follow him upstairs to the main library where his own students who, at that time, were going to write a statistics course so he can shuffle us between them. Unfortunately, I was among those who had to move up with them. When I got upstairs I had a chair and did not have a table in the exam hall, hence I decided to go get a table. By the time I returned with the table, Mr. Samuel Olorunfemi Adams refused my entry into the exam hall.
I told him I was among the students he took from the hall downstairs to join his students.
My pleas fell on deaf ears until one of my colleague was able to help me pass my exam booklet and exam card to me.

TheNews.NG: Mr claim that he did not flog you that he only scared you with his belt that you were the one who locked him by the collar?

Kemi: thats’s a lie, while I was begging him he lost his cool and pulled out his belt from his pants and began to flog me mercilessly. how could I have fought a man bigger than me?

TheNews.NG: He claim he broke your phone because you insulted him?

Kemi: Thats not true, because I refused to fill the exam malpractices booklet Mr. Adams told me to take a last look at my phone and he smashed it on the ground to pieces. My colleagues who witnessed the incident gasped and he made sure he gave all of them -10 marks on their script. I have witnesses.

TheNews.NG: Did you reach out to the school authority on the matter?

Kemi: Yes, after the incident my father wrote the school up copying the Vice Chancellor, Deputy Vice Chancellor and the Dean of Student Affairs that he would like them to look into my matter. I came into school on a Monday morning and I was told to report to the Deans office for an emergency meeting. In the meeting, there was the Dean, Head of department, Head of examinations and a few other lecturers. I was still not granted a fair hearing. Instead, I was told and I quote “We know you know people, and your Dad is well connected, but if you want to graduate in this school you cannot fight your lecturer and win. You have to drop this case. I walked out with tears in my eyes and my heart was heavy with much pain. I felt the school failed me, the women in the meeting failed me even with the obvious bruises I had on my body. Afterwards, I did agree to drop the case because I wanted to graduate. I was frustrated throughout my four years in the university.

TheNews.NG: What do you want now?

I want justice to prevail for the sake of innocent students like myself who are constant victim of abuse by wicked lecturers.

After speaking to both parties involved, there are so many questions begging for answers.

1) Mr Adam claim that he broke her phone because she insulted him, a claim she denied. Even if she did, was he supposed to smash her phone?

2) Mr Adam denied flogging her, in his word ” i only tried to scare her away with my belt then it touched her” How true is this statement

3) Why did Mr Adams and the authority insist that she fill an exam malpractice booklet when the alleged offence had nothing to do with exam malpractice

This and more questions are begging for answers. The world is watching, justice must prevail

http://www.thenews.ng/interview/kemmie-obaditan/

lol, this man is speaking from both sides of his mouth.
Mr Adams: On the day the incident happened, I instructed students to move the next hall to write their exam every other student moved but she refused. she stated that i was a wicked lecturer and that she's heard a lot about me and that she was not going to move in the course of that her phone fell and broke.[i][/i]
Here's what happened, she asked me to give her the phone and i insisted that she fill the exam malpractice booklet, she refused, she insulted my family, she said my family couldn't afford a Blackberry phone,this got me angry, so I smashed it on the ground.[i]
TheNews.NG : Did you flog her with your belt?
Mr Adams: No I did not, I only tried to scare her with the belt and the belt mistakenly touch her.
pls let me go out for my breakfast when i come back i continue.

Who is a supplier of popcorn..cus
..the movie just gettinh started

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Mo n wa iyawo ooo

Lies everywhere... I don't think he believes his own bs... [b][/b]

Only funny news emanating from Nigeria!!! This country na just joke!!!

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I want pple to wonder aw I had many likes without saying anytin

LMAO! Saddist lecturers be causing commotion everywhere...

Some lecturers are the real terrorist we have in Nigeria. How they have destroyed the bright futures of many Nigerian students, I wonder who will save these youngster from these terrorist?

the lecturer is not normal at all oo

Its obvious the lecturer is a liar. I hate victimization with all my might. The news shouldn't be taken down, his filthy image should be reduced to nada.

The social media has been a powerful tool for the youths, even if the school couldn't help her, social media won't fail to.

Ezechinwa:
Only funny news emanating from Nigeria!!! This country na just joke!!!

mr man, don't Nigerianlise this thing abeg. 'the country is bad, the country is a joke', pls shattap! Change starts with you, quit complaining and change the country yourself.

Iro agba

steph2sweet:
It still doesn't change the fact that most lecturers are Wolves in sheeps clothing.

the way you dress that's how you will be address, if you take urself as a gentle sheep no wolves will come backing.

na waa oh God have mercy.

you come to an examination hall with a phone...that's enough exam malpractice already.

Mr. Lecturer.

Wetin him talk ?

The illiterate mini gods of Nigerian Higher Institutions..

the lecturer is not saying the truth

I can see that Lai spirit has possessed many Nigerians.

This serves him well. It is in Nigeria that I see lecturers acting like semi god.

This man no sabi lie.

princy80:
you come to an examination hall with a phone...that's enough exam malpractice already.

You no make sense.

Exams has not started..

I don't think he knows what he's saying, the belt mistakenly touched her. Most of the lecturers be feeling like a god.

princy80:
you come to an examination hall with a phone...that's enough exam malpractice already.

Sigh... Exams hadn't started. I pray you don't get bullied by someone you have no power over. This man's story isn't even consice. How will u remove your belt to scare someone? I hate people who take advantage of authority. It makes me mad to the core

We have heard his version, her version, now waiting for the truth.

Buhari caused all these molestation issues oooo... And he's in U.S now

"If you want to graduate in this school, you can't fight your lecturer and win" this is the exact line most of them use in frustrating lives of innocent 9jarians.

SetrakusRa:


mr man, don't Nigerianlise this thing abeg. 'the country is bad, the country is a joke', pls shattap! Change starts with you, quit complaining and change the country yourself.

Only a tree cannot make a forest!!!!

"If you want to graduate in this school, you can't fight your lecturer and win" such quotes coming from an educated man/professor, and I shouldn't call that a joke?


Mehn, tell yourself the truth and stop acting like superman!!!

That lecturer, If he wants to tell lies, he should be ready to tell better lies

How come he was contradicting himself......

<<<<<when they were arguing, Her phone fall and broke....

<<<<<.....she insulted my family, so i smashed the phone (now was she holding two phones that the first one falls and the second one got smashed or are we Talking about the same phone)

<<<<<.....I used the belt to scare her and the belt mistakenly touch her (oh God!!, who was he explaining this to, an infant?)

Me reading between the line

>>>>>I believe the girl must have said her family cannot afford blackberry phone( yes some girls got the razor sharp tongue)
>>>>>I believe she disobeyed the lecturer by refusing to leave the examination venue
>>>>> I believe the lecturer flogged her just to save face and his dignity in public which was not the way to go about it...
>>>>>I finally believed that the lecturer could not believe how the story spread like wildfire due to the power of media... and he is not ready for that kind of publicity... I Simply hope he is a good lecturer, and not replaceable....if not

Just the first sentence of his story sounds childish.
Like seriously?

Am being neutral here but his version of the story doesn't make sense.

Wicked Lecturer!

It still doesn't change the fact that most lecturers are Wolves in sheeps clothing.