Education
Confusion As University Invites Victims Of Professor’s Sexual Harassments
By Usman Aliyu
The UNIBEN authorities have invited victims of the sexual harassment by a professor but kept mum on the alleged perpetrator
The management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) has inaugurated a panel to investigate the allegation of sexual harassment against a professor in the institution’s Faculty of Arts but held back from naming the lecturer that is being investigated.
That is despite the fact that the university inviting students and other stakeholders to bring forward information that could help to establish the culpability or otherwise of the professor being investigated.
The university announced the inauguration of the panel in a circular issued by the Secretary of the panel, Mr B. D. Jonathan.
It urged members of staff and students with relevant information, or anybody that might have fallen victim of the lecturer’s escapades, to come forward and share with it.
According to the circular, the information will assist the committee in ensuring a thorough and fair investigation.
“Be assured that your identity will be protected and all information will be treated with utmost confidentiality,” it added.
NAN learnt that the university resolved to set up the investigative panel after a graduate of the university took to the social media to call out the lecturer.
The alumna had recounted how she allegedly suffered untold sexual harassment from the said professor during her undergraduate days.
However, the decision of the UNIBEN authorities to invite witnesses without naming the professor who is being investigated for the alleged acts of sexual harassment is bound to confuse some.
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