By Vivian Okejeme Abuja
Th e administration of the Nigerian Law School in Abuja, has said that Mr. Olusegun Kayode Bello, who applied for admission to the Nigerian Law School in July, 2012, was expelled from the school for gross misconduct and insubordination. Th e statement issued by the Head of Information, Chinedu Ukekwe, said that Bello’s application form and Dean’s Reference revealed that he was rusticated from the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan in the 2008/2009 academic session for disrupting the peace and tranquility of the university campus.
According to the statement, the Dean’s confi dential report also showed that he defi ed the authorities of the university and continued his programme without serving out the rustication period. Its further stated that after his studentship was reinstated, he was unrepentant as the report indicated, his further involvement in a case of gross misconduct (insubordination), made the Board of the Faculty of Law to recommend him for further disciplinary action.
Th e statement read in part: “In line with the extant policy at the Nigerian Law School, the candidate’s application for admission in 2012 was referred to the Council of Legal Education, which resolved that the candidate should only be considered for admission in the 2016/2017 School Year in view of his negative antecedent in the University. “Invariably, he applied for admission in 2016. When he was eventually to be off ered admission in October 2016, the Council of Legal Education further directed that he should be issued a letter of warning, to avoid any acts of misconduct and indiscipline while at the Nigerian Law School; and that his admission was on probation, subject to good character.
“Sometime in March 2017, there was a report of an altercation between him and one of his female colleagues over a preferred seat in the venue of lecture.” Going further, “the report from his colleagues was that a female student left the hall to visit the toilet. In her absence, Mr. Bello left his seat at the rear of the hall and took the seat of the absent student. All entreaties of the Auditorium Marshall, the Chairman of the Students Representative Council (S.R.C.) and other students fell on deaf ears. It was further reported that Mr. Bello nearly went into a scuffl e with the female student on her return from the rest room”
