A popular Lecturer at the
Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Prof Ransford Gyampo,
has been caught on camera in the BBC Africa Eye’s “sex for grades”
investigations.
In the viral video, the
Head of European Studies at the country’s premier university is
seen requesting to marry a female undercover journalist posing as a
student.
The undercover journalist had posed as a
graduate seeking to do a study on a subject the
Professor is known to have
a vast knowledge about.
A few weeks after accepting to be the
mentor to the reporter, the Lecturer called the
'student' requesting to
pay a visit to her on a Sunday afternoon.
However, the undercover
journalist persuaded the Lecturer to meet her at "the mall" instead,
BBC reports.
Professor Gyampo was seen in
excerpts of the video released on BBC Somalia’s
Facebook
page making “numerous inappropriate demands," according to the
BBC, from the female reporter posing as a student.
The Lecturer at a point proposed to
marry the undercover journalist and did not hide his desire to kiss her.
Meanwhile, the political
scientist, according to the BBC, has said he was entrapped, denying the
allegations levelled against him.
According
to BBC Africa Eye, for over a year it has been investigating the sex-for-grade
phenomenon in big universities in West Africa including the University of Lagos
popularly called UNILAG and University of Ghana.
Kiki Mordi, who led the
investigations according to the BBC is also a victim of sexual harassment
when she was in school.
The BBC said its female
reporters were “sexually harassed, propositioned and put under pressure by
senior lecturers at the institutions” while they were wearing secret cameras.
For the most part, the
majority of what has been released so far focuses on UNILAG and one of its
lecturer’s alleged attempts to proposition a student seeking admission
into the school.
Dr Paul Kwame Butakor, who
is also a lecturer at the University of Ghana’s College Of
Education, was also caught on camera trying to take advantage of the
reporter posing as a student.
He said he is innocent of
all the allegations made by the investigations.
Source: MyJoyOnline.com
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