In the yet to be premiered BBC Africa Eye documentary dubbed “Sex For Grade” which is a product of months of investigation into allegations of sexual harassment from male lecturers in some Universities in West Africa, it has emerged that two top Professors from the University of Ghana have been caught on tape – Awake News has learnt.
The names of these two lecturers are not yet known but reports say that one of them is a staunch critic of the current NPP government and has since been moving from one place to the other to ensure the sinking image is redeemed after the BBC has released the trailer of the documentary.
In the case of Ghana, according to reports, the investigation focused mainly on five public Universities where investigators gathered hardcore evidence given by students in text, audio, pictures and videos of how their lecturers had sex with them to give them grades.
According to reports on MyNewsGH.com, “The lecturers who make their students add them to their class WhatsApp groups use the opportunity to assess the ladies by their pictures and start sending private messages. Sometimes the lecturer can spot the ‘meat’ in class and ask her to send him a ‘hi’ on WhatsApp.
Ladies who reject the lecturers’ proposals are victimized even they passed. They will re-sit and re-sit and re-sit!
“… That day he told me to come back at 11:30am or he will come and pick me up to a hotel. And I told him I have lectures and he told me not to go. You can look at our chats that day, he even sent me nude pictures only that his face is not showing, but that’s him.” one student narrated, with ‘hardcore’ evidence.
“He said he was taking a shower waiting for me while masturbating,” Another lady said of her free grade lecturer.
The system, MyNewsGH.com learnt, has become so pervasive that even Teaching Assistants at University departments are doing some, and there is evidence to it.
Invariably, MyNewsGh.com learnt that thousands of mostly female university students in Ghana have faced even worse situations at the hands of these lecturers, teaching assistants and other university staff. Many have been forced to face the option of giving sex for good grades or refuse and get bad grade even if they pass.
Some lecturers have failed students repeatedly for refusing to yield to their sexual demands.
“A course that many people had A, he gave me an F. I just decided to let sleeping dogs lie and concentrate on my studies. It started with an IA, after checking the IA and everything which was bad, I took it for remarking, and he told me at a point that the IA looked good, but he wasn’t going to do anything about it unless I ‘opened’ up”.
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For the past year, BBC Africa Eye has been secretly investigating sexual harassment by lecturers at West Africa’s most prestigious universities.
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By: Efo Korsi Senyo / awakenewsroom.com