Professor blames academic weakness for lecturers’ harassment of students
A Professor and former Executive Secretary, National University Commission, Peter Okebukola, has blamed academically weak students for a high rate of sexual harassment by lecturers.
Okebukola told NAN on Tuesday that such students give room for lecturers to approach them for sex-for-marks offer.
“If, in the first instance, a student is academically good, what will a lecturer tell her, sex-for-which mark? All those girls who run after those lecturers or can be harassed by lecturers are those who are academically weak,” he said.
“Even, if the lecturers do not want to get engaged with them sexually, the girls will offer them their bodies.
“If at the point of admitting our students, we ensure that they have met some respectable score that when you teach them in class, they can understand and do well on their own; then the problem would have been addressed,” he added.
Okebukola also noted that many of the universities in an attempt to make money from different programmes in various satellite campuses, admit “wishy-washy students” who are desperate to pass.
Three Lagos State University lecturers were recently sacked for allegedly engaging in sexual harassment of students in their departments.
