Vice-Chancellor of
Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Prof. Ademola Tayo, has said the institution
expelled the female student in the sex video that went viral to protect what
the institution stands for.
Prof Tayo however said
the institution was still in contact with the girl’s family and may take her
back if she was repentant.
Last month a video
surfaced of two students making out in what was later said to be a hospital
ward. The boy was said to have been expelled before the incident while the girl
was expelled as a result of the video.
Speaking during a
luncheon with journalists at the Babcock Guest House on Sunday the VC said “We
had to take that decision in order to protect this institution and to protect
its alumni. Because anywhere they go they say the University where they are all
prostitutes. They said the girls are always swallowing …and all kinds of
ridicule. If we keep mute, in the public opinion they would think that anything
goes in the institution. We had to make a statement to show discipline.
“But I need to tell
you that I signed it off with tears in my eyes as a responsible father. But we
are not leaving this young lady to her doom. The pastor called me last week and
I prayed with the family. The father called me and said pray with your
daughter. I said she is still my daughter. Sometimes discipline is therapeutic.
It is when you go that you realise that this is not right what I have done and
then you go back to yourself.
“I look forward to a
time when this young girl would graduate and be celebrated. It may not be here;
I don’t know where but we are not throwing the baby out with the bath water.”
Tayo described the act
by the girl giving the boy a blow job as abnormal, saying it is not normal for
a young woman to take the manhood of the man and be swallowing. That is a very
dirty thing which supposed not to be heard,” he said, adding that the
institution had to apply discipline but with love.
The VC however said
some stakeholders commended the university’s decision to expel the student,
saying that they would have pulled their wards out of the University.
Tayo also described as
mischievous a publication by an online publication that listed the institution
as the third worst to attend in the country.
“I see that as a
sponsored campaign to smear the institution. I know where it is coming from but
we will not relent because we will do our best to offer holistic education to
the children.
He said Babcock had
achieved a lot with 36 fully accredited programmes and alumni who were making
waves in various fields of endeavour, including the alumnus, Oladapo Oluwatoyin
who made the overall best result in the 2019 bar exams, among others.