BBC reporters went undercover and succeeded in exposing a number of lecturers from Nigerian and Ghanaian universities who subject students to sexual harassment.The full video will be aired later tonight but the short one released shows Unilag senior lecturer Dr Boniface Igbeneghu and University of Ghana lecturer Dr Paul Kwame Butako sexually harassing undercover reporters who they thought were students.
Nigerians were shocked by the story because Dr Boniface is a pastor in his 50s yet sexually harassed the undercover reporter he thought was a 17-year-old prospective student.
Also, Dr Butako’s behaviour shocked Ghanaians because he is a married man.
In the video, Dr Boniface is seen telling the BBC reporter who posed as a 17-year-old girl seeking admission that he is a pastor in his 50s but can get a beautiful girl like her who is 17 with just “sweet tongue” and “money”.
He invited her to his office a second time where he said a prayer with her. But it was no ordinary prayer. While praying, he is seen suggestively thrusting his hip as his already erect male member pressed against his trouser.
He then promised to help her with admission then asked her about her sex life.
“At what age did you start having sex,” he asked her.
He also told her that lecturers in the institution have a place where they take students to smooch and have sex with them. He said it’s called the “cold room” and female students who have sex with lecturers there get favoured by such lecturers because they’ve paid with their body. He went on to defend this practice.
During the reporter’s fourth visit to his office, Dr Boniface became really vulgar.
“Do you want to kiss me?” he asked. She tried to evade but he asked again, “Answer. Do you want to kiss me?”
He continued: “Do you want a kiss. If you want me to kiss you, switch off this light, lock the door, I’ll kiss you for a minute. That’s what they do in the ‘cold room’. ”
He then went into the bathroom. When he emerged, he said to the undercover reporter, “Time for cold room experience.” He then switched off the light and locked the door to his office before going to join the student on the couch and began forcing her to come close to him.
Dr Paul Kwame Butako, a lecturer at the University of Ghana’s College of Education was also one of those exposed. In a video, he is seen propositioning the undercover reporter for sex.
Dr Butako was caught on camera saying: “How many guys have told you you’re beautiful today?”
He added: “Let me be your side boy; side guy. Men have side chics. maybe you’ll be my side and I’ll also be your side. Because I’m married. My wife is not in the country though. My wife is out of the country.”