The wife of the governor of Ekiti state, Bisi Fayemi has revealed that she
faced sexual harassment while she was a university student. She said this on
Monday during the premiering of #SexForGrade, an hour-long documentary exposing
randy lecturers in some universities in Nigeria and Ghana.
One of the lecturers exposed is Boniface Igbeneghu, former sub-dean of
faculty of art at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), who sexually harassed Kiki
Mordi, an undercover reporter who posed as a 17-year-old admission seeker in
the institution.
Condemning this, Fayemi said it is troubling some of these lecturers have a
culture of entitlement to the bodies of the girls.
Fayemi said “I cried because what these young women have experienced is the
story of many of us who passed through higher institution in this country,”.
“I was educated here in Nigeria and I too was a victim of sexual harassment
during my university days. I was luckier than these victims. It didn’t go that
far but it was extremely unpleasant and of course, back in the days when all
these things happened you can’t tell anyone because if you do even up till now
people ask you to keep shut.
