'SEX FOR GRADES': BBC AFRICA EYE BRINGS TO EVIDENT LIGHT, SENIOR UNIVERSITY LECTURERS SEXUALLY HARASSING STUDENTS

Photo of a section of the Legon campus of the University of Ghana.

It is not uncommon to come across allegations of lecturers sexually abusing students in the various universities in Ghana. Apparently, this is one of the expressions of corruption and decadence that Ghanaian universities share with their counterparts across West Africa. As common and heightening that this rot may have appeared, it is mostly barely substantiated and hence pragmatic sanctions are hardly meted out to accused lecturers.

This social, cultural and educational vice is the focus of the latest of BBC Africa Eye's exposé led by investigative journalist, Kiki Mordi - whom had also been a victim of this vice. A team of undercover journalists disguised as students were sent to the University of Ghana and the University of Lagos, where much of the rot were captured on tape.

Wired female reporters were evidently harassed sexually, and also put under intense duress to consider some academic proposals by senior lecturers of these two renowned universities in West Africa.

The leadership of the University of Ghana has described the allegation against her lecturers as disturbing and has pledged to that the institution's policy against sexual harassment is enforced to the letter.

The full documentary is scheduled to be aired later today. However, two prominent names are already making waves on social media as culprits of this offence as revealed by the preview of the documentary released earlier today on bbc.com. These include Dr. Paul Kwame Batukor, senior lecturer of the College of Education of the University of Ghana and Dr Boniface Igbenehue, former sub-dean of the University of Lagos and head of a local Foursquare Gospel church in Nigeria.

Source: bbc.com