“My Lecturer is Threatening to Fail Me if I Don’t Sleep With Him, What Do I Do?” Lawyer Gives Advice

“My Lecturer is Threatening to Fail Me if I Don’t Sleep With Him, What Do I Do?” Lawyer Gives Advice

 

A young student is in a dilemma after one of her lecturers threatened to give her a carryover in his course should she continue to turn down his love-making demand

She is in need of a way out as she does not want to fall his course as doing so would cost her an extra year at the university

 

Ebimnamaonye Chidera Divine, a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and founder of Pure Legal Solicitors, has offered a solution to the problem

A worried female undergraduate asked:

‘I am a final year student of the department of food science and technology (university name withheld) and need urgent help as one of my lecturers wants to sleep with me at all costs.

“Recently, he invited me to his office under the guise of something related to my course and threatened to give me carryover in his course if I didn’t allow him to make love to me.

Bameter Chiders emphunned the importance of havarg evidence. Image on the right is for illustration purpose and is unrelated to the story Photo Credit: Commercial Eye, Facebook/Pure LoqgalSource Batty Images

“I am scared because this is my final

year and a carryover would mean me having an extra year because his course is a core one and cannot be waived. Please, advise me on what to do?”

 

Barrister Ebimnamaonye Chidera Divine is the founder of Pure Legal Solicitors. The legal luminary is a barrister and

solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria

Sex for grades demystified

“Sex for grade” is a phrase subject to multifarious interpretations in Nigerian society, most especially the tertiary Institutions where it begot its predominance.

 

The reason for many interpretations of this common phrase is that there is no law defining the meaning of sex for grade nor is there any criminal consequences attached to its commission in Nigeria specifically.

As a misconduct especially in our educational institutions, sex for grades can be said to be an exchange of

academic grades for sexual pleasure. When sex for grades becomes criminal

While sex for grades is wrong and a misconduct on the side of the lecturer and student when done with or without the consent and agreement of both

parties, it becomes criminal when either of the parties threatens or uses force to have carnal knowledge of the other

against their will as a requirement for passing a particular course or some courses.

 

Types of sex for grades

In view of the above, we can say sex for

grades is of two types.

The first is the one mutually agreed

between the lecturer/teachers and

students (free from threats) and the

other is one that is coerced or forced on

the students by the lecturers or teachers.

Implications of sex for grades without

threats

The Abundant implications of sex for grades without threats, that is with

mutual agreement of lecturer and

students, is that disciplinary measures will be meted on the lecturer(s) and student(s) for going contrary to school

rules, regulations which can lead to their suspension, sack or expulsion as the case may be.

Sex for grades with threats from lecturer

However, where a lecturer uses threat(s)

to request sex as a condition for a favourable grade, it becomes criminal if: The carnal knowledge is between the same gender (Homosexuality). punishable under the Same-Sex Marriage

Prohibition Act, 2013 or if there is sexual

harassment of these students.

 

Solution for sex for grades situation

Now, where a lecturer threatens to have

sex with you for a grade, make sure you

have evidence(s) of conversations where

the lecturer or teacher deposited interest

to have carnal knowledge of you.

When you get these, make a formal

complaint to your institution attaching

the evidence of threats and coercion

while you retain other copies of your

shreds of evidence.

Where the institution delays in deciding

on the misconduct, consult a lawyer or if

you are a woman, you can write to the

International Federation of Women

Lawyers (FIDA) around your state,

supplying them with the evidence of

ra.pe or sexual harassment as the case

may be

They will take up the matter for free on

your behalf.

Finally, on sex for grades

It’s very pertinent to note that what

proves your claim(s) is the pieces of

evidence you have supplied to prove your

allegations.

So make sure you systematically record

all written and verbal conversations

when being threatened by these so-

called sex-for-grade merchants.

 

UNICAL warns lecturers over sex for

grades

Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported

that UNICAL had sounded a final warning

to its lecturers involved in sex for grades.

The management of the University of

Calabar (UNICAL), Calabar had

commenced an investigation into claims

that some of its lecturers were engaging

in sorting and sex for grades.

They warned the erring lecturers to

repent from such acts and should be

ready to face the Disciplinary Committee

when the time came.