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Is it the case that
there's no smoke without fire - or people choose to see their own smoke where
there's no fire?
One wonders why most of
these student-victims become reluctant to report to the relevant authorities:
lecturers who failed them in their papers because they refused to play ball to
their sexual advances.
Back at the Ghana
Institute of Journalism, students who failed a subject or more did not spare
our ears of their own experience and the 'nuisance' of campus rumors:
lecturer-student sexual harassment was always one of the many reasons for their
examination karma.
It cannot be rumors or
allegations - then again "who-born-dog" should a student dare to
agitate the entrenched mafia-like-caucus of lecturers who intimidate students
of failing them if they don't heed to their sexual advances.
The fear of being
further victimized by these ‘godless’ lecturers and other fellow lecturers
often deters many of these students.
May be.
But all of these remain
rumors and allegations at best.
None proven.
We sought to find out.
Our journey for
substance beyond the rumors would take us to the University of Ghana, Legon.
Many of the students we
encountered appeared to hold onto these rumors – some with their own untold
experiences.
"It’s very hard to
pass your exam without bribing a lecturer. You either pay money or offer sex,
one female student tells us.
They are the most
victimized - most of the students we quizzed seemed to agree.
Yet, "this is a
sad reality", another student tells us.
Some lecturers are
ready to jeopardize the future of their students if they dare challenge the
orthodox. Worse, report these senseless acts.
"I used to go to
class with the girl all the time and when we close we go together.
Later the
lecturer asked...
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By: Nathaniel Crabbe.
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