Sex-for-marks: NANS leader opens online sexual assault register

Former South-West Coordinator, National Association of Nigerian
Students, Sunday Ashefon, has identified the ‘name and shame
method’ as a viable weapon to expose lecturers sexually assaulting
students.

Ashefon said ‘NANS Sexual Harassment Register,’ an online
register, had been opened for students who had been assaulted
sexually either for marks or cash by both male and female
lecturers.

The NANS presidential aspirant and student of Ekiti State
University, who made the link, https://bit.ly/2OBwzFx^[1], available
to journalists in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on Saturday,
described, “Name and Shame as a viable weapon to expose any
lecturer whose name was repeatedly mentioned by students of same
university.”

Ashefon, who is leading the campaign, according to a statement
by his Special Assistant on Media, Pelumi Fasogbon, has vowed to
publish a graphical result of the poll when he eventually becomes
the NANS president.

He said, “All sexually-victimised students to sign up the
petition, which shall be presented to the Federation of Women
Lawyers, Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, Nigerian
Universities Commission, Academic Staff of Nigerian universities
and governing councils of tertiary institutions affected and if
possible, prosecute same depending on the availability of weighty
documentary evidence.

“As NANS President, my leadership shall restore academic
discipline back to campuses and never again shall students be
threatened by academic or non academic staff for success.

“The public register is available online and we shall name-shame
anyone whose name appears more than once. The era of sexual
impunity is over,” Ashefon added.

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