Sexual harassment is a threat to women pride on campuses
By Yawa
Hadiza Hajiya
It is no
longer news that sexual harassment has since become a scourge ravaging the
serenity of our campuses and the moral fabric of our society.
More
troubling is the fact that our tertiary institutions seem to be helpless under
the spell of sex-for-mark epidemic.
It is
pertinent to assert that no institution is immune from the onslaught of sexual
misconduct. Even our religious institutions have recorded scandalous cases of
clergymen and clerics defiling female worshippers and congregants.
Yet none
compares to the tales of sexual molestation coming from the campuses of our
universities and polytechnics.
According to
a study, tertiary institutions in Nigeria are overwhelmed with cases of sexual
harassment and assault.
Why is it
so? What have our lecturers turned into? It must however, be said that most
cases of sexual molestation targeted against the female students just don’t
happened; they are orchestrated and induced by the female students, who
clad themselves in indecent and amorous dressings.
It is
depressing to note that most female students abhor decent and modest dressing
to lecture halls; a situation that seduces some morally depraved male
lecturers. It is thus safe to conclude that indecent dressing is an
indirect invitation to sexual
harassment.
Despite the
negligence and laxity of some parents in inculcating good dressing morals in
their female children, teachers and lecturers are expected to resist the temptation
to molest their seducers.
They should
rather see themselves as doting fathers who are supposed to help mould the
future, career and lives of the young female.
Meanwhile, it
is important for school authorities to enforce strict rules and codes that will
compel female students to dress responsibly within and outside the campus.
CCTVs should
be mounted in staff offices to check lecturers who like hosting only female
students to check their lust towards
defiling the pride of womanhood.
Hadiza
Hajiya is a 300-Level student of Mass Communication at the Ibrahim Badamasi
Babangida University, Lapai (IBBUL)