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Nigeria seeks anti-sexual harassment law after BBC #SexForGrades film | Nigeria seeks anti-sexual harassment law after BBC #SexForGrades film |
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The Nigerian senate has introduced a bill that aims to prevent the sexual harassment of university students. | The Nigerian senate has introduced a bill that aims to prevent the sexual harassment of university students. |
The proposed legislation follows a BBC investigation that uncovered alleged sexual misconduct by lecturers in Nigeria and Ghana. | The proposed legislation follows a BBC investigation that uncovered alleged sexual misconduct by lecturers in Nigeria and Ghana. |
The senate's deputy president said he hoped the BBC's investigation would help energise support for the bill. | The senate's deputy president said he hoped the BBC's investigation would help energise support for the bill. |
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege said that he regarded sexual harassment in universities as unacceptable. | |
If the bill were to become law it would be illegal for lecturers to make any sexual advances towards students. | |
And under the proposed law, which was read in the senate on Wednesday, teaching staff could face up to 14 years in jail for having sexual relationships with their students. | |
The anti-sexual harassment bill was originally introduced in 2016 but didn't pass both houses of parliament. | |
Critics rejected the bill because it did not cover sexual harassment in the workplace and included a defence for consent. The defence for consent has been removed from the latest bill. | Critics rejected the bill because it did not cover sexual harassment in the workplace and included a defence for consent. The defence for consent has been removed from the latest bill. |
Footage of alleged sexual misconduct by academics at the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana was broadcast on Monday in Sex for Grades - a documentary by the BBC's Africa Eye investigative unit. | |
The documentary prompted outrage over harassment in Nigeria and Ghana and led to the suspension of four lecturers featured in the film. The suspended lecturers have denied the allegations. | |
What did the film show? | What did the film show? |
Four lecturers were secretly filmed allegedly propositioning or sexually harassing the BBC's undercover reporters. | |
Dr Boniface Igbeneghu, a lecturer at the University of Lagos and local pastor, was filmed making inappropriate remarks and requests toward an undercover journalist, who was posing as a prospective student aged 17, and later physically harassing her and asking to kiss her inside his locked office | |
Dr Igbeneghu then appeared to threaten to tell her mother if she was "disobedient" towards him. | |
The full hour-long documentary also featured interactions with two lecturers at the University of Ghana. | The full hour-long documentary also featured interactions with two lecturers at the University of Ghana. |
Both of the men, Professor Ransford Gyampo and Dr Paul Kwame Butakor, have been suspended but denied they were offering "sex for grades" in the undercover exchanges. | Both of the men, Professor Ransford Gyampo and Dr Paul Kwame Butakor, have been suspended but denied they were offering "sex for grades" in the undercover exchanges. |