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#SEXFORGRADE OLABISI OLALEYE OF IRS DEPT. OAU AND MOTUNRAYO AFOLAYAN with EVIDENCE
On July 23rd, I received a message from Esther @AirstarBlessing
She was worried about her friend, Motunrayo @motun_special who was a student of international relations, OAU. Olabisi Olaleye, her
On July 23rd, I received a message from Esther @AirstarBlessing
She was worried about her friend, Motunrayo @motun_special who was a student of international relations, OAU. Olabisi Olaleye, her
lecturer at the dept had told everyone to come to his office to check their results. On getting there, Motun realized she failed. Mr. Olaleye told her he will give her a good grade if she was ready to have sex with him. Motun declined. But Mr. Olaleye had his “perfect plan” - as
the lecturer in charge of examination timetable, he placed the course Motunrayo failed with a course in her 4th year on the same date and the same hour. Motunrayo was sad as that meant an extra year. She went ahead to meet with Olabisi Olaleye to reconsider the timetable.That was
Whenever there’s a public outrage in Nigeria on such matters as #SexforGrade and #ViolenceAgainstWomen, the momentum is tactically killed by introducing Bills in the National Assembly. Activists then celebrate with euphoria that they’ve been listened to. But the truth is that...
... there are existing laws on all these issues which are never enforced. For example, #SexforGrade is rape under our penal laws because “consent” was illegally obtained. It’s also bribery and could be criminal assault. A lecturer can be charged with these and several others.
But all the above provisions exist only on pages of texts. And same will be the fate of the new Bills being praised. I think it’s more productive for activists to push for the enforcement of existing laws, some of which are sufficient, rather than getting distracted by new Bills.
Comparing BBC's #SexForGrade Documentary and Jaafar's Ganjuje Bribe-Taking Videos--SHORT THREAD
BBC's #SexforGrade documentary is trending and inspiring an honest national conversation for only two reasons: BBC's institutional prestige and Nigerians' instinctive,
BBC's #SexforGrade documentary is trending and inspiring an honest national conversation for only two reasons: BBC's institutional prestige and Nigerians' instinctive,
inferiority-complex-driven reverence for the foreign, which I have characterized as xenophilia in past articles. Had the investigation been done by a Nigerian news outlet, it won't only have been a damp squib; its very authenticity and facticity would have been questioned. When
Daily Nigerian's @JaafarSJaafar painstakingly investigated Kano State governor Abdullahi Ganduje for 2 years and captured him in 15 video scenes (nine of which clearly showed his face) collecting kickbacks from contractors, APC minions questioned the authenticity of the videos.
