Our laws are so disproportionate in this naija sha... 5 years for sexual harassment?

Life sentence for rape?!

Smh

Nice move but relationship by consent shld be allowd to work, there is nothing bad in parties getting into legit relationship.
By the way when is it going to be passd law that will prescribe jail terms for politicians who employs universities girls/boys for sexual pleasure. Ofcos the promoters will be the first victims

stagger:


You don't know what these politicians do to these young girls here in Abuja. I do. I don't need to meditate on jack before I post on things I know. I will not mention names for security reasons but this law is the highest point of hypocrisy.

Why are you comparing prostitution and sexual harassment victims ?
A law is to be considered on its own merits not on irrelevant sentiment.
If we are to go by your logic every criminal law in Nigeria should be scrapped
to avoid "hypocrisy", since some of the politicians have committed the said crime
at one point in time.

I'm so loving this. it should be extended to 30 years sef

doublewisdom:
Same lawmakers that are sugar daddies to girls young enough to be their grand daughters?

Harassment and prostitution are two entirely different things.
Comparing them is illogical.

manuch:
A bill for a law which prescribes five-year jail term for lecturers who engage in sexual relationship with students was passed for first reading in the Senate on Wednesday.

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege (Labour-Delta Central) and co-sponsored by 46 other senators, seeks to completely prohibit any form of sexual relationship between lecturers and their students.

Briefing newsmen after plenary, Omo-Agege said that the nation’s institutions of higher learning must be sanitised to rid them of lecturers who saw female students as “prize’’.

According to him, when the bill is passed and signed into law, any lecturer found guilty will be liable to a jail term of up to five years but not less than two years with no option of fine.

“When passed into law, it makes it a criminal offence for any educator in a university, polytechnic or any other tertiary educational institution to violate or exploit the student-lecturer fiduciary relationship for sexual pleasures.

“The bill imposes stiff penalties on offenders in its overall objective of providing tighter statutory protection for students against sexual hostility and all forms of sexual harassment in tertiary schools.

“The bill provides a compulsory five-year jail term for lecturers who sexually harass students.

“When passed into law, vice chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics and other chief executives of institutions of higher learning will go to jail for two years if they fail to act within a week on complaints of sexual harassment made by students.

“The bill expressly allows sexually harassed students, their parents or guardians to seek civil remedies in damages against sexual predator lecturers before or after their successful criminal prosecution by the State.

“The bill also seeks to protect, from sexual harassment, prospective students seeking admissions into institutions of learning, students of generally low mental capacity and physically challenged students,’’ he stated.

The lawmaker said that it was practicable in other climes as “honour codes’’ but stressed that it should be domesticated in Nigeria in the Penal form.

The bill reads: “an educator shall be guilty of committing an offence of sexual harassment against a student if he/she has sexual intercourse with a student.

“He or she shall be guilty if he has sexual intercourse with a student or demands for sex from a student or a prospective student as a condition to study in an institution.

“He or she shall be guilty if he has sexual intercourse with a student or demands for sex from a student or a prospective student as a condition to the giving of a passing grade.

“ He or she shall be guilty if he solicits sex from or makes sexual advances at a student when the sexual solicitation or sexual advances result in an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment for the student.

“He or she shall be guilty if he directs or induces another person to commit any act of sexual harassment under this Act, or cooperates in the commission of sexual harassment by another person.

“He or she shall be guilty if he grabs, hugs, rubs or strokes or touches or pinches the breasts or hair or lips or hips or buttocks or any other sensual part of the body of a student.

“He or she shall be guilty if he displays, gives or sends by hand or courier or electronic or any other means naked or sexually explicit pictures or videos or sex related objects to a student.

“He or she shall be guilty if he whistles or winks at a student or screams or exclaims or jokes or makes sexually complimentary or uncomplimentary remarks about a student’s physique.’’

The bill also has provisions to sanction students who falsely accuse lecturers of sexual harassment. Such students could face dismissal from the school but no jail term was prescribed.

According to the bill, the only exemption is where the student is legally married to the lecturer before admission in the school as a student.

It states that the consent of the student shall not serve, in anyway, as a defence as the bill seeks to completely ban lecturer-student relationships.
The bill also imposes on institutions the responsibility to protect students who initiates a sexual harassment charge.

source:http://www.leadership.ng/news/523659/sexual-harassment-senate-plans-5-year-jail-term-randy-lecturers

How many years for corrupt politicians, looters and those that go to the National Assemblies just to concur?

Let's support this bill,lecturers intimidate ladies too much,they even go too far by intimidating any guy who moves with a girl they (lecturers) are interested in,meanwhile they have their own wives at home,imagine.

How about those common situations of female staffers sexually harassing male students?

Are males deserving of sexual integrity and protection?

Obviously our lawmakers are not very bright. Stupidly enough, this bill will the tagged Equality Bill. Equality bill that protects one gender only. Equality bill that assumes 50% of the population are not deserving of protection.

This just makes me sick.

cantara:
Nice move but relationship by consent shld be allowd to work, there is nothing bad in parties getting into legit relationship.
By the way when is it going to be passd law that will prescribe jail terms for politicians who employs universities girls/boys for sexual pleasure. Ofcos the promoters will be the first victims

I agree. Consensual sexual relations between adults shouldn't be criminalized.
But lecturers coercing students (male or female) to have sex with them should be severely punished. A 2-year jail sentence could suffice though. Ditto for a student sexually harassing a lecturer or school official.

donbenedict:
But what of cases where some ladies tend to harass a lecturer sexually...

Very good question..From experience, it is d ladies that harass d lecturers. What is the penalty for that?
God Bless Nigeria

DrHighchief:

Very good question..From experience, it is d ladies that harass d lecturers. What is the penalty for that?
God Bless Nigeria

as in eh...

Dem no serious at all. Make dem enact law wey go jail corrupt politicians for 20 years. Dem no fit do that one, na stupid lecturers dem wan focus dem attention on. #busybodies

I am very sure the first person to go to jail is is is Pro. .. Johnson of .....,.university... After i will come to compile their names

Frivolity...

lastpage:


The Legislooters actually use MONEY to seduce the Undergraduates! Its a form of taking advantage of their Poverty and greediness.
Not different from lecturers who use "pass/fail" as the tactics.

We should hold them to the same "moral standard" we hold the lecturers.


Am also wondering, how will it pan-out if a male student accuses a female Lecturer of 'sexual harassment'?
Will everyone laugh at him .... the same way they will if a guy accuses a lady of raping him?

Seems this law is specifically aimed at MALE lecturers, whereas, sexual harassment cuts across both gender.



Lastpage!

In the face of corruption and harsh economic hardship. People are till making it. Our girls should stop been greedy and cut their cloth to their size. I am not supporting corruption in a means but our girls should respect themselves and stop looking for things they can not afford e.g blackberry and human hair.

5starmilitant:


Being a sugar daddy to a young lady is by choice, that is if the girl wants it. But these lecturers always want to take advantage of young ladies by force. And if they refuse them, they will so frustrate the girl with carryovers whether she's intelligent or not. Some even go as far as making people's daughters their sex slaves just because of education. I support this one from our lawhackers.

nice reply

kropotkin11:
Or use it to get through school on blackmail

Eh eh