A bill prohibiting sexual harassment of students by
educators in tertiary educational institutions has scaled
second reading at the senate.

The bill, which was debated on Tuesday, received the
endorsement of many lawmakers.
Leading the debate on the bill, Ovie Omo-Agege, a
senator from Delta central, argued that sexual
harassment was rife in many higher institutions of
learning in Nigeria, hence the need for a law outlawing
the vice.

He, therefore, urged the senate to support the bill.
“Sexual harassment is a vice in our higher institutions.
We are using this bill to send a message that enough is
enough,” he said.
Also speaking,Theodore Orji, a senator from Abia state,
expressed his support for the bill.
“I believe this bill will do enough in curtailing the vice in
our higher institutions,” he said.

However, Dino Melaye, a senator from Kogi west, while
making his contribution, said that sexual harassment
was a two-way traffic.
He argued that some students willfully seduce their
lecturers with the aim of getting academic favours.
“I support wholeheartedly that this bill be enacted to
stand as deterrent to lecturers who take advantage of
female students,” he said.
“However, the seductive and provocative dresses of our
students who enter offices of lecturers who have no
anointing to resist sexual temptation should be
discouraged.”

Making her contribution, Stella Oduah, a senator from
Anambra north, called for a quick passage of the bill.
“When you harass these girls you have ruined their
lives,” she lamented.
“We should encourage an accelerated passage of this
bill.”
In his contribution, Yahaya Aliyu, a senator from Kebbi
north, called for a blanket law against sexual
harassment, instead of one that is targeted at a section
of society.
“If we are to make laws against sexual harassment we
should do it across the board. Targeting one section of
society is discriminatory,” he said.
After listening to the arguments, Senate President
Bukola Saraki put the bill to a voice vote to which
lawmakers gave their nods.

Afterwards, the senate president referred the bill to the
committee on judiciary for more legislative treatment,
and directed it to submit its report within four weeks.
The bill has to be read a third time, before it is passed.
Meanwhile, the senate will debate the current status of
the Nigerian economy on Wednesday.
This followed a point of order raised by Bassey Akpan,
a senator from Akwa Ibom north-east, under order 42
of the senate rules which has to do with matters of
urgent national importance.
Akpan while making his submission stated that the
economy had slipped into a full-blown recession, and
added that it needed an urgent remedy..

“I wish to draw the attention of this chamber to the
statistics of Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on the
state of Nigerian economy. Statistics have shown that
our economy has gone into a full-blown recession,” he
said.

After listening to him, Saraki stood down the matter to
the next legislative day.

According to the NBS, 1.5 million Nigerians became
unemployed in 2016. This is besides 13.7 percent
inflation rate, and the depreciating value of the naira.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has called for an
urgent monetary policy meeting to look into the current
fiscal challenges.


Source
http://humblegists.com/2016/05/25/university-sex-grades-prohibition-bill-scales-2nd-reading-senate/

Very good!

Lecturers better start pocketing their pricks.