Universities
in Nigeria and Ghana have been plagued by stories of sexual harassment by
lecturers and professors. Allegations include a wide array of abuses from
blackmailing students for sex in exchange for marks and admission. The type of
abuse is said to be endemic but it’s almost never proven.
More than 40
percent of women experience some variation of sexual violence in their life
time -that according to the National Institution of justice, can involve crimes
as diverse as sexual harassment, non-penetrative sexual assault and rape.
Forced sexual initiation are also linked to various health conditions some
which persisted years after the event. More generally Survivors of forced
sexual initiation are reported to have poorer health, higher illicit drug use
and greater difficulty performing tasks due to a physical or mental health
conditions. Now the Rector of a Polytechnic, Dr Sanusi Jima said in an
interview against the backdrop of a trending video where some lecturers were
allegedly captured demanding sex from their female students. He said that by
the grace of God, with the help of mechanism put in place, such vices have been
greatly hipped.
QUESTIONS
1 What is
sexual Assault?
2 Is it
right in the eyes of the law for lecturers to harass female student to get
grades in school?
3 How dose
this sexual harassment affects these female students in terms of their
academic, do you think it affect their performance generally?
4 What
measures do you think should be meted out to lecturers found in this act?
5. what is
the health implication of sexual harassment/assault?
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