Sex-For-Grades: NANS Opens Online Sexual Assault Register, Vows To Publish Names Of Lecturers

The leadership of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has said the ‘name and shame method’ is a workable weapon to expose lecturers who sexually assault students.

Former Southwest Coordinator of NANS, Sunday Ashefon, who stated this on Saturday, said the students body has opened an online register, ‘NANS Sexual Harassment Register,’ for students who had been assaulted sexually either for marks or cash by both male and female lecturers.

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This is coming on the heels of the ‘sex for grades’ scandal rocking the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

A UNILAG lecturer-cum-pastor, Boniface Igbeneghu, had been caught on camera soliciting sex from an investigative reporter who posed as a 17-year-old girl seeking admission into the institution.

The NANS presidential aspirant and student of Ekiti State University, who made the link, https://bit.ly/2OBwzFx, available to journalists in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, described “Name and Shame as a viable weapon to expose any lecturer whose name was repeatedly mentioned by students of the same university”.

According to a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Pelumi Fasogbon, the former NANS Southwest coordinator, who is leading the campaign has vowed to publish a graphical result of the poll when he eventually becomes the NANS president.

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He admonished “all sexually victimized students to sign up the petition, which shall be presented to Federation of Women Lawyers, Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, Nigerian Universities Commission, Academic Staff of Nigerian universities and governing councils of tertiary institutions affected and if possible, prosecute same depending on the availability of weighty documentary evidence.

“As NANS President, my leadership shall restore academic discipline back to campuses and never again shall students be threatened by academic or non-academic staff for success.

“The public register is available online and we shall name-shame anyone whose name appears more than once. The era of sexual impunity is over,” Ashefon said.

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