Boniface Igbeneghu
The University of Lagos has suspended the lecturer who was caught soliciting s*x from an 'admission seeker'.
According to a report by TheCable, the University of Lagos has
suspended Boniface Igbeneghu, a lecturer and former sub-dean of faculty
of art in the institution, for s*xual harassment.Igbeneghu, who is also head pastor of a Foursquare Gospel Church, was exposed in a 13-minute video documentary released by the BBC Africa Eye on Monday.
He was caught on camera sexually harassing an undercover reporter who posed as an admission seeker in the institution.
A lecturer of the University of Lagos has landed in trouble after he was caught harassing woman in a BBC documentary.
Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has reacted after its staff was
involved in a sex-for-grades documentary by the BBC which has since gone
viral.
In a statement released by its Pro-Chancellor and Chairman,
Governing Council Dr. Wale Babalakin, said the Council would investigate
allegations of sexual harassment against a lecturer exposed by the
documentary titled “Sex for Grades”.
Babalakin, who said he had heard report of the video, which showed a
UNILAG Lecturer, Dr Boniface Igbeneghu, groping BBC Africa Eye
undercover reporter, said the University had zero tolerance for sexual
harassment.
“I have not seen the BBC report but I got wind of it early this
morning. I can say on behalf of our Council that there is zero
tolerance for sexual harassment.
“We will investigate the matter thoroughly and anyone found
wanting will face the consequences according to the laws of the
University.
“Students must not be made to suffer for anything and your
marks must be directly commensurate to your performance. Any other thing
is not scholarly and would not be tolerated,” he said.
Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), UNILAG
Chapter, Dr Dele Ashiru, described the lecturer’s behaviour as
unfortunate and indecent.
“It is unfortunate and indecent to say the least,” he said.
In the video, Igbeneghu, a senior lecturer in the University’s
Faculty of Arts, told the journalist who posed as a 17-year old
admission seeket he would help her if she would obey him.
Igbeneghu, who is also a pastor with Foursquare Church, said pretty
students fell easy prey to lecturers and revealed that the UNILAG staff
club was a popular place where they took advantage of their prey.
A University of Lagos lecturer who is also a pastor has been exposed in a new documentary by BBC.
Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu
A new documentary by BBC Africa Eye targeted at lecturers in some
West African universities harassing their students for sex in exchange
for grades/marks has exposed some randy lecturers in Nigerians and
Ghana.
After gathering dozens of testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent
undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos
and the University of Ghana.
It was disclosed that female reporters were sexually harassed,
propositioned and put under pressure by senior lecturers at the
institutions – all the while wearing secret cameras in a 13-minutes
video documentary released.
A UNILAG senior lecturer, Faculty of Arts, who doubles as the head
pastor of a Foursquare Gospel Church in Lagos, Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu,
was exposed as one of the culprits.
The undercover journalist posed as a 17-year-old student who wanted an admission at the University of Lagos.
The “student” endured a couple of sexual harassment from the Dr. Igbeneghu.
Igbeneghu, who invited the teenager to his office for a number of
tutorials, subsequently began to have inappropriate conversations with
her.
On their first meeting, he commented on her appearance.
In the 13-minutes secret filming, the lecturer revealed how his
colleagues tossed and passed around UNILAG female students for sex.
He disclosed further how his colleagues patronised UNILAG Staff
club ‘Cold room’ to commit series of atrocities on female students.
“Do you know that you are a very beautiful girl,” he asked her.
“Do you know that I am a pastor and I’m in my fifties. What
will shock you is that even at my age now, if I want a girl of your age –
a 17-year-old, all I need is to sweet tongue her and put some money in
her hand and I’ll get her,” Igbeneghu said to her on camera.
Despite repeated requests, the lecturer failed to react to the BBC’s allegations.
Also, authorities of UNILAG dissociated itself from the lecturer’s actions.
It revealed to the BBC that the institution had a zero-tolerance policy on sexual harassment.
Furthermore, it refused to comment on the alleged ‘cold room.
Meanwhile, another lecturer from College of Education in Ghana, Dr. Paul Kwame was also indicted in the video documentary.
In a twitter post by its official handle, @BBCAfricaEye, it said;
“for the past year, BBC Africa Eye has been secretly investigating
sexual harassment by lecturers at West Africa’s most prestigious
universities.
According to the BBC Africa Eye Reporter, @kikimordi who conducted
the investigations, she revealed that the investigation was carried out
due to the clamour to expose these bad lecturers.
She said: “Hundreds of you asked us to do this investigation. We heard your call #SexForGrades”
Kiki Mordi, who was once a victim of sexual harassment, revealed
what happens behind closed doors at some of the region’s most
prestigious universities in the video documentary.
Over the years, there have been issues of female students being harassed for sex in return for marks in Nigerian Universities.
Sex-for-mark practice is a common problem in Nigerian institutions,
which over the years may had been encouraged by Nigerian universities
due to their failure to appropriately sanction erring lecturers.
It should be recalled that last year, an embattled former lecturer
of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Prof. Richard Iyiola Akindele was
reportedly sentenced to two years in prison for sexually molesting
female students.
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