This influential professor allegedly lied that Prof. Ogunsaju had favoured another female Professor in the department (names withheld) in the payment of honorarium by paying her before him: an allegation which turned out to be false. Another victim of this false and imaginary fabrication was the late Dr. Stephen D. Akangbou over the purchase of furniture for the HOD’ office in 1986, while Late Dr. Stephen D. Akangbou was the HOD. Also, there was the issue of alleged intimidation of one Prof. John Ike Nwankwo in 1990, to disengage from the university service with a petition containing a false claim that Nwanko cooked up marks for students. This was also investigated and found to be false. Prof. John I. Nwankwo now works with the UNESCO but was formerly a lecturer and the supervisor of the PhD thesis of this influential university don.
There was also the issue of the arrest and harassment of Professors James Ajala, Elaturoti and J.B. Babalola, former and current Deans of the Faculty of Education, over a false claim that they wanted to kill same influential university don. It was learnt that the actual motive was the promotion of his former student Prof. J.B. Babalola, to the rank of a professor before his own promotion was announced. Apart from this, it was gathered also that this powerful don, had boastfully flooded out two of his colleagues (Drs. Akinwumiju and Ajayi) from the university service in 2007 with another clincher in the form of petitions. His next target, one Dr. Martins Olubunmi Fabunmi, escaped his sledge hammer.
Several unsuccessful attempts were made to set up Dr. Fabunmi between year 2000 and 2008. Part of the ploy was an attempt to make one of his PhD project students to use fake statistics with the view of involving him in an academic fraud. Some of the female students used against him refused to cooperate. However, a few students agreed to be used against this university don. Again, this Dr. Fabunmi, we were told, was always able to turn down set up offers for amorous relationships from both staff and students.
Dr. Fabunmi was in the Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, United States of America in 2006/2007 academic session for the post-doctoral teaching and research fellowship. A female very senior administrative staff who latter became a principal officer of the university made frantic efforts to make sure that Dr. Fabunmi was dropped from the list of those to benefit from training programme.
Her reason was that Dr. Fabunmi was a petition writer. Dr. Fabunmi had exposed how her friend was manipulating students’ results and using unofficial receipts to make illegal collections which he did not remit to the university account. However, her efforts failed as very senior professors at the meeting insisted that the criterion was purely academic. Dr. Fabunmi made the best use of the opportunity.
The host university (SIUE) recognized the academic ability and other good qualities of Dr. Fabunmi. He was attached to an outstanding professor of IT & Research, Professor Yuang Liu and was commended on SIUE official website for his outstanding and sustained contributions to research and academics.
However, Dr. Fabunmi’s image was tarnished by one of his female colleagues who also visited same university purposely to get him trapped by sexual orgies. The matter some how, became subject of police investigation and sensing that the plot had failed, the colleague sent him an apology e-mail and retracted the one she earlier sent claiming sexual assault.
Though the lady was alleged not to be on the original list of those to benefit from the McArthur training programme, she was made to apply after those to undergo the training programme had been selected. The argument for the inclusion of her name is that somebody was needed to represent her section: Editorial Department, Distance Learning centre, University of Ibadan.
On getting there, she had approached Dr. Fabunmi to accommodate her in his room, but Dr. Fabunmi refused. He insisted that the lady should get her official accommodation, which she eventually got. She later volunteered to join Dr. Fabunmi in his one-hour daily jogging exercise, during which she ran down the powerful Prof. she was acting for and some other principal officers of the university in order to obtain the needed information. This did not work.
However, on getting to Nigeria, she alleged that Dr. Fabunmi harassed her sexually thrice in an e-mail to Dr. Fabunmi. Unfortunately for her, Dr. Fabunmi travelled on two of the dates she quoted. Moreover, the SIUE authority was not comfortable with her claim as she never mentioned her allegation to anyone throughout her eight-week stay in the university.
