Court Acquits Rivers State University Lecturer of Sexual Assault Charges filed against him by female student

A Chief Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, on Monday, September 25, discharged and acquitted a lecturer of the Rivers State University, Professor David Ogbonna, of charges of unlawful and indecent sexual assault against a female student.

On June 28, 2022, the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Port Harcourt, had arraigned Professor David Ogbonna on one count charge of unlawful and indecent assault against a twenty-one-year female student of the institution.

Delivering judgment in the case on Monday, the court, which was presided over by Chief Magistrate Poromon Menenen, discharged and acquitted Professor Ogbonna accused of unlawful and indecent assault on a female student by inserting his penis in her vagina in his office on the University campus. The court held that the prosecution team failed to prove their case.