An inappropriate relationship between a lecturer and a student is one of the easiest forms of misconduct to establish. Set up a panel of objective and independent assessors, examine the conduct of both parties against the school’s established rules and regulations, and consider the unequal power dynamics between them.
To claim that a student initiated a sexual relationship with her lecturer, someone who holds considerable power over her academic progress, is like a civil servant claiming that a contractor forced him to accept a bribe. You cannot credibly claim to have been coerced into a sexual relationship by someone subject to your authority, someone who may depend on your discretion or mercy. It is a ridiculous defence. There is only one proper response to such an advance, even where the person in authority suspects that he is being set up: reject it and report it.
There are, of course, female students who may offer sex to escape poor grades in courses they are either unprepared or unwilling to pass, while their male colleagues bear the full consequences of their own performance. But this does not exonerate the lecturer who accepts the offer. He is expected to reject such advances and report them to the appropriate authorities, particularly where they threaten the proper discharge of his duties to the institution.
The mistake in the trending assault on Nasa’i Gwadabe, a lecturer at Northwest University, Kano, was the decision to take the law into private hands. Whatever the evidence or the intensity of the emotions involved, jungle justice has no place in a civilised society. I do not say this because I am certain I would have acted better, but because it is the right principle. Many of us might lose control if a female relative were placed in such a situation, but the instinct to retaliate does not make retaliation lawful or right.
If you believe one random man single-handedly opened a “fake” office,eluded officials, misled the Accountant General and the CBN, got budgetary allocations and even defended it at NASS, operated from the “office” still undetected, please go back to your school and collect refund.
Northern governors, elites, businessmen, scholars, and emirs are largely silent while insecurity continues to claim lives across the North. If those with influence and access to power are not consistently demanding action, why do people think a social media trend alone will suddenly make the APC government act?
Technology is not the answer; Justice is the answer. Perpetrators punished, victims rehabilitated, compensated and protected…permanently. Justice is a principal ingredient to peace.
Every time I come across the video of that man being beaten by bandits this country pisses me off even more. A corps member serving a country that abandoned him in the hands of cruel animals. Helpless, hopeless & powerless because Nigeria failed him.
Detty December in Nigeria is about who has enough to spend on overpriced things.
You want your economy to be attractive but things are more expensive & overpriced.
Even Mauritius with real luxurious things is not as expensive as Nigeria.
Many people fail to realize that the respect they receive on the global stage is directly tied to the respect their own country commands.
They continue to glorify developed nations while constantly criticizing their home countries, forgetting that their true value is,
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For everyone who wishes to see Nigeria fall through terrorism, corruption and other vices, whether Muslim or Christian, Southerner or Northerner. May their intentions be exposed & may they be disgraced for the world to see.
Aāmin!
One day, we must interrogate who decided that the terrorists and armed groups ravaging Nigeria should be labelled “bandits,” and those in the Southeast simply “unknown gunmen.” Whoever influenced the country, including its media and legal community, to adopt and maintain these mischaracterisations has done Nigeria a great disservice. These actors are terrorists, and naming them accurately is essential to confronting and containing them effectively.
@TahaAdam_@Surayyah__ahmad That’s just it. They have benefited, and then failed to emulate and extend the legacy. It’s never about the system, but the people. Ko yanzu sukeso suyi gyara, zasu iya. Everyone knows what they are doing. And there’s no excuse anywhere