He noted that University of Ghana has several lecturers and for the two to be singled out, an investigation needs to be conducted.
“The University of Ghana has a lot of lecturers. They didn’t just settled on Prof Gyampo but everyone must understand that they have a reason, a basis for choosing Prof Gyampo. That bases may be proven in an investigation but the fact is that they have reason to belief that what they were hearing about those lecturers needed further investigation.”
Mr Fuseini speaking at the current affairs program Newsfile on Joynews, Saturday 12, 2019, he said that though the BBC Africa Eye conducted the investigations using the unconventional method, a connection needed to be established between a lecturer and a student.
“They chose the unconventional approach probably because of the power relation between the students and the lecturers. It was going to be exceedingly difficult to get students to come out and testify against their lecturers, that’s why they chose the unconventional method of taking somebody outside the university.”
He said that the expose was a demonstration done to expose the inappropriate conduct of how lecturers exploit their power.
“What did they want to demonstrate, they wanted to demonstrate that when a lecturer come in close proximity with the students inappropriate conduct occurs. That lecturers exploit the power relationship between them and their students and engage in misconduct and that was the essence of the video."
The documentary shown cases of sexual harassment by lecturers in the University of Ghana as well as the University of Lagos (UNILAG).
Inusah Abdulai B. Fuseini, also stated that the BBC Africa Eye exposè dubbed ‘Sex for Grades’ used an unconventional approach to investigative journalism because of the power relations between lecturers and student on university campuses.
Adding that it will be extremely difficult to get students to come out willingly to testify against their lecturers that is why a non-student form Legon was used for the investigation. Read Full Story
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