DRAMA AS FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENT HOLDS MAN ‘HOSTAGE’ ON CAMPUS FOR ALLEGEDLY REFUSING TO PAY FOR SEX
A dramatic scene played out at the town campus of the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Monday afternoon when a female student of the school held a man ‘hostage’ for refusing to pay her after he allegedly had sex with her.
The incident, which took place in front of the main gate of the university, was captured in a six-minute video posted on the Facebook page belonging to Inside Uniuyo.
The video shows a middle-aged man on the driver’s seat of a brown-colour Honda Civic car, rejecting entreaties from passers-by, apparently students, who were persuading him to “settle” a female student who had spent a night with him.
“Settle”, a euphemism in Nigeria, means to pay a bribe or give money for an illicit act.
“I gave her N2,000 she refused to collect,” the embattled man is heard screaming at those who were begging him to “settle” the student.
“I didn’t do anything with her. I had asthma yesterday night,” the man said in an angry tone.
The identity of the man and that of the student were unknown.
The female student, who appeared unperturbed, was busy eating boiled groundnuts from a cellophane bag on her laps.
She wore a turtle-neck milky top on blue jeans trousers.
The man said he picked the student in front of the school gate the previous day and took her out for a night. But he insisted that both of them didn’t have sex because he had an asthma attack.
“It’s a lie, this man slept with me last night,” she said to the crowd which surrounded the car.
The man yelled at her to get down from his car. “I have given you money, what do you want again?”
The girl retorted, “You never see something!”
The man yelled again at her to call the police or go to the court if she really felt he owed her.
The student, from the video, demanded that the man pay her N20,000.
By now, more people are seen trying to talk to the man to add some extra money to the N2,000 he was offering the student. The people could be heard telling the man to save himself the embarrassment.
“Settle what with her? Am I a criminal? Did I steal anything from her?
“Why should I give her that kind of money? Did I buy anything from her?”
One of the persons trying to intervene asked him, “Did she jump into your car or you took her from somewhere?”
The man responded: “Did I force her into the car? Is she an underage?”
The other man asked again, “Did you do something with her?”
“I said I didn’t. I had asthma. She is a witness. Ask her. I didn’t do anything.
“We stayed in the room. But we didn’t do anything. I had asthma.”
The man said he had only N3, 000 in this pocket and that he was willing to give out N2, 000 to the student.
“Oga, what did you expect when you carried her home?”
“Did she tell me a price? Is she ashawo (prostitute)?
“If she were ashawo, I wouldn’t have carried her.”
One male student in the video is heard speaking in Igbo language to the female student, pleading with her to collect the money that the man was offering her.
She too was adamant on her demand.
Later, a police pick-up truck is seen arriving the scene. A mobile policeman came down and took both the man and the student away, while the crowd booed.
The spokesperson for the University of Uyo, Godfrey Essien, couldn’t be reached at the times of filing this report, as his phone line was switched off.
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The Nigerian Army redeployed, cancelled or amended postings of seven major generals, 45 brigadier generals and 597 other officers last week, in one of its most far-reaching shake-up exercise in recent years, PREMIUM TIMES reported yesterday evening.
No reasons were readily cited for the new postings and cancellations and amendments of previous postings, but military sources told PREMIUM TIMES over the weekend that the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, approved the exercise on July 18.
Amongst the seven major generals affected, the Army cancelled the redeployment of Adeniyi Oyebade, two months after he was transferred from being General Officer Commanding of Nigerian Army 1 Division, Kaduna, to Army Headquarters in Abuja as chief of logistics.
But no new posting was assigned to Mr. Oyebade, who was indicted last year in the December 2015 massacre of Shiites in Zaria.
The shake-up was announced in a memo with reference number MS/G1/3OO/2O7 and signed by I.O. Rabiu, a major general and Military Secretary, military sources said.
About 100 Nigerian Army formations, units and departments within and outside the country were copied in the memo.
Redeployment has become a frequent feature in the Nigerian Army since Mr. Buratai assumed office two years ago, but none of them was as sweeping as the recent exercise.
Three major shake-ups had been recorded within the last seven months, with the most recent affecting 147 officers in May.
A total of 227 officers were affected in a similar exercise last December.
A breakdown of the remaining 597 affected officers shows that they included 197 colonels, 50 lieutenant colonels, 99 majors, 138 captains, 111 lieutenants and two second lieutenants.
Thirty-eight out of the total 649 officers had their postings cancelled or deleted.
That included two major generals, one brigadier general, seven colonels, five lieutenant colonels, 10 majors, eight captains and five lieutenants.
While eight of the officers had their postings deleted, the redeployment of 30 others were amended by the Army.
“It is the responsibility of all formation/unit commanders whose officers are affected by this posting to implement accordingly.
“Officers must take over on the effective dates indicated. Formation/unit commanders will be held responsible for lapses in the implementation of the directives contained therein,” the memo stated.
Source News Express
