Afeez Baruwa who is a part time lecturer at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), was on Thursday arraigned by the police before an Ikeja Magistrate Court for allegedly raping an 18-year-old admission seeker .

The victim’s father who belongs to the same landlords’ association with Baruwa in the Abesan, Ipaja area, had on July 23, allowed his daughter to join the suspect to UNILAG for an admission procedure.

Baruwa however raped the girl inside one of the study halls at about 9am, when the duo arrived the campus, according to the charge sheet.

Medical results from the Mirabel Center have since proven that the girl was violated.

Baruwa was arrested after the case was taken to the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender and the Surulere Police Division.

42-year-old Baruwa was thereafter arraigned by the police on a one count charge of rape.

The charge read: “That you, Baruwa Afeez, of Block 73, Flat 2, Abesan Estate, Ipaja, Lagos, on July 23, 2015, at about 09.25 hours, at the Faculty of Business Administration Annex building, Room 8, University of Lagos, in the Ikeja Magisterial District, did unlawfully rape one (name withheld), aged 18 years, and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 258 of the Criminal Law of Justice, Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.”

The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The Magistrate, Mrs. O. Awope, admitted the accused on bail in the sum of N250,000 with two sureties in like sum.

Awope ordered that Baruwa be remanded at the Kirikiri prison until his bail terms are met.

The case was adjourned to September 9, 2015 for trial.