#SexForGrades: Girls’ rights organisation seeks justice for victims



A girls’ rights organisation, Plan International Nigeria has condemned the practice of some lecturers in universities who sexually abuse their students in exchange for marks.

The Country Director of the organisation, Dr. Hussaini Abdu, in a statement on Tuesday, called for more practical approach in dealing with the disturbing phenomenon.
This is coming on the heels of media reports implicating some university lecturers who were exposed soliciting sex from undercover journalists who posed as students.
 “The BBC Eye on Africa’s video documentary report of October 7th, 2019 which captured two Nigerian university lecturers in Lagos bargaining for sex from undercover journalists who posed as students is yet the most damning confirmation of this unacceptable phenomenon in the country’s ivory towers,” Abdu said. 
“It stands condemned by all people of good conscience and government and every stakeholder must act fast and act now, decisively to halt this ugly trend which is fast eroding the confidence in our educational system.” 
Abdu said the practice must be stopped and necessary measures put in place to guarantee the safety of girls in schools from all kinds of sexual predators.
While commending members of the senate for swiftly speeding up work on the pending sexual harassment bill for assent by the president, he called for the minimum penalty to be pegged at five years’ imprisonment rather than as the maximum being considered by the lawmakers.
He said it was “high time we rose above rhetoric. Government must bring perpetrators of sexual violence to book and end this unacceptable practice.” 

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