It is no longer news that sexual harassment has since become a scourge ravaging the serenity of our campuses and the moral fabric of our society.
More troubling is the fact that our tertiary institutions seem to be helpless under the spell of sex-for-mark epidemic.
It is pertinent to assert that no institution is immune from the onslaught of sexual misconduct. Even our religious institutions have recorded scandalous cases of clergymen and clerics defiling female worshippers and congregants.
Yet none compares to the tales of sexual molestation coming from the campuses of our universities and polytechnics.
According to a study, tertiary institutions in Nigeria are overwhelmed with cases of sexual harassment and assault.
Why is it so? What have our lecturers turned into? It must however, be said that most cases of sexual molestation targeted against the female students just don’t happened; they are orchestrated and induced by the female students, who clad themselves in indecent and amorous dressings.
It is depressing to note that most female students abhor decent and modest dressing to lecture halls; a situation that seduces some morally depraved male lecturers. It is thus safe to conclude that indecent dressing is an indirect invitation to sexual harassment.
Despite the negligence and laxity of some parents in inculcating good dressing morals in their female children, teachers and lecturers are expected to resist the temptation to molest their seducers.
They should rather see themselves as doting fathers who are supposed to help mould the future, career and lives of the young female.
Meanwhile, it is important for school authorities to enforce strict rules and codes that will compel female students to dress responsibly within and outside the campus.
CCTVs should be mounted in staff offices to check lecturers who like hosting only female students to check their lust towards defiling the pride of womanhood.Hadiza Hajiya is a 300-Level student of Mass Communication at the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai (IBBUL)
