With the unfortunate incident, I understand the dilemma of the university and two extreme circumstances of not throwing out the baby with the bathwater or allowing the “virus and communicable disease” of the baby, to spread and be contracted by other members of the family.

I do not find it difficult of supporting the position of sacrificing the erring students in a bid to prevent others from contracting the “anti-moral virus”. The decision of the university to expel the affected students will send signals to others who are treading similar path or about to be involved.

Relying on the success of the University in reforming students in its care, many parents who had given up on their children due to their waywardness and moral corruption turned to the faith-based University for succour. As the university applied “draconian” measures to tame their “beast”, the same parents criticised the institution for being too hash on their wards.

This is why parents should do their best in giving their children required home training before sending them to higher institutions. It is not the sole responsibility of the school to train the children.

The sextape scandal points to the fact that our social institution is collapsing. All the agents of socialisation - family, media, school, peer group, and religion – are now in comatose. What the two Babcock ex-students exhibited, are the results of the negative roles played by all these agents in their socialisation process.

The family has abandoned its responsibilities as the children take up role model from illusionary and morally corrupted characters created by the media. The religion institution by its conducts is giving justification to the assumption of Karl Max who described religion as “the opium of the people”. Some of the sane children well trained by their parents got corrupted by their peers in many of our schools because the education institution has derailed.

With these, it shows that the Babcock ex-students caught in the sextape, like many others in Nigerian higher institutions are victims of the morally corrupt society. The society owes them an apology! #SexTape #Babcock
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