Lecturers fire back at lawmakers over sexual harassment bill http://www.ibasam.com/2016/11/lecturers-fire-back-at-lawmakers-over.html

This their reaction is like to say now, FG say they will ban the farming of cucumber.

Na then u go see reactions from ex-beauty queen's

I see reason with them though!
What happen to senate harassment, bankers etc

balogunsam45:
Lecturers fire back at lawmakers over sexual harassment bill http://www.ibasam.com/2016/11/lecturers-fire-back-at-lawmakers-over.html

take time oooo. d people wey dey post full message wey u dey read for here no get sense ba.....



here is d message.



Sexual harassment, as an act, is as old
as man. But until recently, it was learnt,
there was no law, in the country,
specifically targeted at tackling the
menace, which has remained a recurring
decimal in virtually all universities’
campuses, without exception.o
Alarmed at the rate of the menace on
campuses, the Senate recently, passed a
Bill, which would in the thinking of the
Senate, helped stem the tide of the
menace.
But some lecturers think that the issue
was being over-exaggerated, as such,
they are asking the Nigerian lawmakers
to concentrate their energies on other
worthy ventures, and not mundane ones,
like sexual harassment.
The Bill, known as the Sexual
Harassment in Tertiary Education
Institution Bill, prescribes a 5-year jail
term for lecturers and educators
convicted of sexual harassment of either
their male or female students, just as it
made provisions for a fine of N5 million,
should the accused be convicted by a
competent court of law.
And taking into cognisance, the fact that
some students may just take advantage
of the law, to raise false alarm, the Bill, it
was further gathered, has also provided
cover, for this category of lecturers, but
not without a caveat. The caveat is that
the lecturer, so falsely accused, must be
acquitted by a competent court of law.
Once that happens, the Student, who
raised the false alarm “shall be expelled
or suspended, as the University deems
fit.”
According to the lecturer, Dr. Aniekan
Brown, who is a Senior lecturer in the
Department of Sociology, University of
Uyo, the law was a case of vendetta from
the Senate, against the academic
community, since the Senate has not told
Nigerians what constitutes sexual
harassment.
“As we speak, officially, I don’t think that
we have up 150,000 people who lecture
in the Nigerian universities. And out of
about 181 million Nigerians, the Senate,
in the myriad of laws available for them
to evolve, will target academic staff,
something tells me there is something
vendetta about that.
“Granted, it is their responsibility to
make laws; but I wished they had started
with themselves, by beginning to query
how much of harassment they have
offered to women as Senators of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria before getting
to deal with some other Nigerians.
“I’m not saying that there may not be
harassment here and there. It happens in
banks; it happens everywhere. But it
shouldn’t be particularised to any sub-
sector of the Nigerian economy; it should
be full blown. But for them to zero in on
the Nigerian lecturers, it means there is
something personal about it. So, what
happens if somebody doesn’t harass
from the university, but begin to harass
from the bank point of view, from church,
from Senate, from mosque and every
other place?
“So, when you sit back, you realise that it
was myopic for them to want to close in
on lecturers. In any case, I don’t expect
any lecturer to fall prey to such a farce.
And on the whole, I think the Senators
would have thought of better things,
instead of coming to deal with this
minute issue,” Brown, said.
On her part, a female lecturer in the
Communication Arts Department, Dr
Nevelyn Bata, said there was need to be
careful, because, some of the sexual
harassment claims, students make, are
spurious.
“But if the claims are verifiable, I think,
there should be some restrictions to help
bring down the incidences, if at all it
exists. I’m saying if at all it exists
because, all the time I had stayed in the
University as a student, I wasn’t
harassed. So, when you hear of claims of
lecturers harassing students, it sounds
strange to those who never had the
experience,” she added.
She said further that most of those who
raise the alarm are those “who have
issues, who don’t sit down to read; they
have issues in their academics and when
they fail they begin to cook up all
stories. Well, for lecturers, who would
condescend to harass students who they
are old enough to be parents to, I think,
the law should catch up with them.”
Like his colleague, Dr. Aniedi Ikpang, who
is the Dean, Faculty of Law of the
University of Uyo, also argued that there
were more pressing things in the country
that the National Assembly could have
legislated on; since, by his own claim, he
has never received any report or
experienced any sexual harassment since
becoming a lecturer more than 15 years
ago.

Most of those lecturers sound like sexual predators

Chiefobdk, if not for the presence of some afonja ga.ys
(bisi somebody) on this thread I wuld av said "I feel u".

Anyway, "hola, I see u onye ekem"

*stories above*

givan:
Chiefobdk, if not for the presence of some afonja ga.ys
(bisi somebody) on this thread I wuld av said "I feel u".

Anyway, "hola, I see u onye ekem"

*stories above*

Wat re u saying

hope my nyash safe