By Wilson Adekumola
The University of Ilorin, Kwara State, has used the cases of the former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and the controversial Nigerian singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, to set examination questions in the Criminology Department.
According to the question paper, the Department of Criminology and Security Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences used Ekweremadu and Portable’s cases in the Harmattan Semester Examination for the 2021/2022 session.
The question one, which referenced the former Senator was made compulsory and the students were advised to answer any other questions.
Ekweremadu, the Nigerian politician was sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison last week for an organ harvesting plot in the United Kingdom.
The examiner, in the course Code CSS 311, asked students to state the types of confession made by the victim and mention the predisposing factors that led to the confession and features of the UK police that assisted in the arrest and prosecution of the lawmaker.
Check on the question paper also revealed that the lecturer in charge of the course also asked questions about Portable’s case, who was arrested by the police in March in question three.
The examiner requested that the students should highlight four types of criminal profiling, the procedures for obtaining individual characteristics and the relationships between the personality of the offender and his job.
