The Nigerian social media witnessed a meltdown on Wednesday over a sex tape involving two yet-to-be-identified former students of the Babcock University, Ilishan, Ogun State.
In the footage, which went viral on the Internet, a man and a woman were seen having sexual intercourse in a hospital room.
The young woman involved in the act was said to be a 300-level student in the Accounting Department of the institution, while the man was said to have been expelled by the institution following his involvement in social vices and examination malpractices.
According to reports, the man had checked into a rehab centre and his girlfriend paid him a visit there.
However, during the visit, both lovers engaged in steaming sex and captured the action on video, with the man reported to have showed the footage to his friends.
It was alleged that he also had sexual intercourse with one of his friends’ girlfriend, and after discovering the escapade, the friend allegedly released the video to other people till it became public knowledge.
A lot of reactions have greeted the sex tape.
The Director, Communication and Marketing, Babcock University, Joshua Sulaimon, said in a statement on Wednesday that the man in the sex tape had been expelled since February for grievous misconduct, adding that when the video emerged, the lady was also expelled after the institution had followed the due process.
The statement read in part, “The boy in the video was expelled from Babcock University in February this year after investigation and due process proved that he was into certain grievous misconduct, the act for which the university has zero tolerance for.
“His girlfriend was, until the video emerged, a third-year student of Accounting of this university. After due process, she was promptly expelled from the university for the violation of the rules and regulations.
“The place where the immoral act took place, according to her written statement, was the St. Bridget Hospital, Abeokuta, Ogun State, where the boy has been undergoing rehabilitation for different destructive addictions. According to the girl, the incident took place in April this year during school vacation, when she visited the boy in the hospital. The act did the not take place at Babcock University.”
The university’s decision to expel the lady in the video has received mixed reactions, but mostly condemnation in the social media. See some tweets;
Jesus Christ taught important lessons on forgiveness and second chances.
If Babcock is grounded on Christian ideals, then surely, their management should have done what Jesus did – write in the sand and ask those without sin to cast the first stone.
— Jamal (@JajaPhD) November 20, 2019
Babcock’s reaction to the video was to allegedly expel the student. Our sense of justice is punishment, not reformation. If the school is meant to build character, why do they expel those whose character they find short? Nothing in that video warrants anyone losing 3 years!
— JJ. Omojuwa (@Omojuwa) November 20, 2019
A THREAD ON THE BABCOCK UNIVERSITY STUDENT’S SEX VIDEO.
I will like to see and carefully read through the Students’ Information Handbook of Babcock University.
It is really necessary for us to move beyond the mob culture and our hypocrisy in discussing cases like this. /1 pic.twitter.com/dVMhGvCKO8
— Inibehe Effiong (@InibeheEffiong) November 20, 2019
I understand the fact that Babcock University may have faced a ‘reputational crisis’ arising from the social media frenzy that followed the viral video.
However, we should not shy away from asking basic due process questions. Justice is beyond emotions. /6 #Babcock
— Inibehe Effiong (@InibeheEffiong) November 20, 2019
You tagged the Sextape
Babcock Porn
And you are amazed that Babcock decide to react.
Everyone that shared and RT’d that video contributed to her expulsion
— Cinderella Man (@Osi_Suave) November 21, 2019
I just learnt that the video wasn’t recorded on Babcock’s premises. Why was the girl expelled then? If it did not happen on the school grounds or during school session, what is the basis for the expulsion??? pic.twitter.com/1lzcmkhqd3
— BASHY SAMA (@bashy_io) November 21, 2019
Babcock University may have overreacted. They probably went for an overkill. That video should only have earned the stupid girl a few semesters suspension. The punishment was way too much since it’s not rape or sexual assault. Methinks expulsion is too much for stupidity!
— El Commandante (@MrLekanAdigun) November 21, 2019
The biggest mistake Babcock university made is to expel the girl involved in the video. The girl is actually going through a lot due to her mistake and compounding to it is expulsion, she needs counselling and support from the school.
Thanks— Akinwunmi Babatunde (@TundeA01) November 20, 2019
If I was the VC, Dean of Student Affairs or part of the committee that looked into the Babcock students case, I would not recommend expulsion.
— Dr. Dípò Awójídé (@OgbeniDipo) November 20, 2019
Dear Babcook University,
By your own admission in this letter, the said act did not happen in your school. So, why expel the said girl? You acted ultra vires of your powers & violated her right to a private life enshrined in section 37 of CFRN. pic.twitter.com/NLtOAxOp0y
— Comrade Deji Adeyanju (@adeyanjudeji) November 20, 2019
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