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

Jokerman:
What about lecturers that collect sorting

na corruption dat one be na

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

Na im be say plenty lecturers dey enter kirikiri soon.

Oh no...they should've make it 20yrs in jail, yeye lecturer

First good thing from this Senate

What about lecturers that collect sorting

Just five years? And if its the ordinary guy in d street; 20 years abi?. There is a bg gap between the elites n the ordinary people

not just lecturers, all people who take advantage of people to sexually exploit them, mangers,business men, landlords, Corpers, Fathers, Mothers

good one. ere ki l'aja ba ekun se. there is nothing like she seduced me, if you are seduced by your student and you fall, na your plan, go to jail. I love the part that also sends the school head to jail after a week of no response. we need to sanitize our schools.

Good one.

But where is lalasticlala sef

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

Brilliant we will stop having half baked potatoes

Hope U guys are included in dat?

Nice

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

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.

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

My thought too.

How many years for female students who harass lecturers?

One of the most reasonable bills in recent times!
I pray they accelerate the hearing process!

Secondary school teachers unko? Abi dem think say na only lecturers dey follow students?

Over to the students. Taking it from where their lecturers stopped.

Who go gree report na?

This is very good for our educational society, but the bill should also encompass female students who harass lecturers.

Haven't heard of any bill concerning rape, and paedophilic syndrom taking over our society.

Randy like mr cork

reading...

Cutting off their Dick will be a better punishment.

Law makers or politicians shud also be included in dat bt maybe as regards if such relations interferes with carrying out their official/constitutional duty.

And for the lecturer/student it shud be within thesame skol. Cos a lecturer cud still seek smtn with a student in a skol outside his without prejudice I think(just like in the banking sector). Lol

How many years for sadist lecturers?

How many years for corruption?

And how many years for under age !!!!!