Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Information Minister for Ghana has called for an interrogation of the specifics of the sex for grades documentary released by the BBC Africa Eye.
According to Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, there is an ongoing debate about whether the narrative of the sex for grades documentary supports the facts that they claimed to have uncovered.
"The specifics of this matter will have to be properly interrogated and a determination made whether or not BBC actually is right in terms of the narrative they are putting on this or they have some evidence to back........"
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"There are about just three comments, the first is that any form of sexual harassment or abuse of a position or trust or power to exract sexual favors is something that must be frowned upon, second is the fact that i think there is a genuine contestation whether the narrative that the BBC put on what the claim to uncovered fits indeed what they have uncovered, and I have seen social media debates going back and forth whether the narrative they put on it fits the facts, I'm sure you will recall that we have had a conversation in this country for a while about the fact that narratives and facts have to be considered very properly else you may get into a scenario where the journalist says this is the fact I saw and the narrative and then we run into a certain conclusion and in think in Prof Gyampo's defense he has been speaking about the fact that the narrative that they have put on it does not reflect the facts that they claim to have uncovered and i think that there is a need for a certain proper looking into it to telling whether or not the narrative is exactly what has transpared, everybody has the right to be heard...." he explained in an interview with Citi FM.
Sex for grades
The BBC Africa Eye has investigated some academic institutions in West Africa after several allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers.
This type of abuse is said to be endemic, but it’s almost never proven. After gathering dozens of testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana.
Female reporters were sexually harassed, propositioned and put under pressure by senior lecturers at the institutions – all the while wearing secret cameras.
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Reporter Kiki Mordi, who knows first-hand how devastating sexual harassment can be, reveals what happens behind closed doors at some of the region’s most prestigious universities.
Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghanan, Prof Gyampo was also cited in the documentary but the Professor has denied his involvememt in any sex for grade act.
The University has also defended him saying there is no prove in the report that the professor even though misconducting himself change the grades of any student after sleeping with them.
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