An alleged rapist who claimed to be a student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti in Ekiti State has been disowned by the institution.

WuzupNigeria reports that the suspect, one Femi Adejuwon, was arrested on allegations he lured a 16-year-old admission seeker to his friend’s apartment on Sunday, April 12, 2020 and raped her.

Adejuwon had after his arrest claimed to be a student of Accountancy at Ado Poly.

But, the management of the institution disowned the suspect, who was paraded by the police in Akure, the Ondo State capital, about two weeks ago for the reported offence.

The school registrar, Mrs K Ekanem, appealed to the police authorities “to always carefully carry out their investigations in order to unravel the true identity of any alleged criminal before rushing to parade such on media trial, thereby disparaging along the process, the reputation of innocent institutions”.

The institution, in a petition to the Ondo State Police Commissioner, dated April 29, said information in the school record indicated that a student, who had an almost similar name “had since last year been withdrawn on the ground of poor academic performance and had not registered for the current session”.

“It therefore presupposes that the alleged criminal paraded by the police in Akure for raping by the name, Femi Adejuwon, even if he was the same person discovered to have been withdrawn, was no more a student of the polytechnic,” she stated.

Ekanem, who said that institution was embarrassed by the reports on the parade as reported in the media, said,

“We hereby declare that the alleged rapist paraded by the police in Akure as Femi Adejuwon is not on the nominal roll of students of the FPA”.

The management, who said the institution could not be linked to such a crime considering the timing and jurisdiction of the crime and arrest, said,

“At the order of the government, the FPA was shut down on Monday 23rd March, 2020 while all students were mandated to go home to their parents.

“Since the school had been closed before the lockdown, which still persists, all students are expected to be under the care and monitoring of their parents in their respective homes, while the supposed student committed the offence far outside the jurisdiction of the institution in another state, we consider the attempt to link the polytechnic to the offence committed as a poor job done in bad taste by the police.”