{"id":300565,"date":"2017-03-09T17:04:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=300565"},"modified":"2017-03-09T17:04:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:04:41","slug":"publish-names-of-sexually-abusive-lecturers-ug-students-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/publish-names-of-sexually-abusive-lecturers-ug-students-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish names of sexually abusive lecturers \u2013 UG students demand"},"content":{"rendered":"
Some female students of the University of Ghana, led by the Women Commission of the school\u2019s Representative Council (SRC), are proposing that authorities of the school publish on its website and in the dailies, the full details male lecturers who sexually abuse female students.<\/p>\n
According to them, sexual harassment and misconduct on campus has become a growing trend, but students do not report such cases for fear of victimization.<\/p>\n
At the \u2018Speak Up Conference\u2019 organized by the Commission on International Women\u2019s Day, students who have been sexually abused by lecturers shared their sad stories.<\/p>\n
Sexually exploitative behaviour, conferring undue favours to influence subordinate staff or students to yield to sexual desires and amorous behaviour between students and teaching staff, are some of the sexual misconducts that the statutes of the University frowns upon.<\/p>\n
But Yaa Gyamfua, an executive of the SRC Women\u2019s Commission, believes these rules are often flouted by the very people trusted to uphold it, including the lecturers.
\nAs a result, she said most victims for fear of being victimized, do not report such cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat abuse takes away from you is your dignity; so then you don\u2019t even have much of it left to be going around talking about it in the first place. That accounts for a lot of the reasons why you don\u2019t hear about it (sexual abuse). But truly it happens, a lot of it happens\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n
According to her, \u201cFor a number of ladies who have approached us, it\u2019s mostly between authorities and students.\u201d<\/p>\n
Touching on some other cases of abuse on campus, Gyamfua recalled that \u201csomewhere last semester, someone was raped in between the annexes of Sarbah (Mensah Sarbah Hall) one night when she went to study. Another happened at Athletics Oval some time ago. We just woke up and saw that her clothes had been torn and her panties were left there. I don\u2019t think the girl as at now has been able to show up and report.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Chairperson of the Anti-Sexual Harassment Committee of the University, Prof. Abena Oduro, gave the assurance that female students at the Conference that the University had demoted some lecturers for sexually abusing female students in the past; and will crack the whip on deviant lecturers found culpable.<\/p>\n