BBC journalist, Kiki Mordi, has revealed that she has received
subtle threats since her widely applauded undercover investigation into sexual
harassment of female students by male lecturers at the University of Lagos and
the University of Ghana respectively was published.
The investigation, which took almost a year, saw Mordi and
other undercover female journalists secretly filming randy lecturers in both
universities trying to use their positions to demand sex from young ladies in
order to favour them academically.
According to Mordi, who said on Monday that the project was
inspired by her personal story, she is not bothered by those threats because
the BBC takes the security of employees very seriously.
She said, “I have received subtle threats since this work
was completed but I am not bothered because the BBC takes the security of
employees seriously.
“Before embarking on this project, the team prayed a lot and
also sang because it helped to calm the nerves.
“But I had to go through the trainings I received over and
over again because I wanted to get it right.
“The bulk of the ritual I perfformed were reading, research
and preparation.
“The biggest goal of this work was to be louder than the
aggressor because sexual harassment is very loud. I wanted it to be silenced.
“I am happy that a lot is changing already since the
documentary was release and I can confirm to you that one of the lecturers at
the University of Lagos caught sexually harassing a prospective student has
been dismissed by the institution.
“I believe it doesn’t stop there until there is a
conviction. We have to break that culture of impunity.”
In the undercover documentary now making the rounds on the
Internet, one of the lecturers at the University of Lagos, Dr Boniface
Igbeneghu, a former sub-dean of Faculty of Arts, who is also a pastor of a
local branch of the Foursquare Gospel Church, was seen making amorous advances
at the ‘prospective student’, who claimed to be 17 years old.
At a point in the video, he offered her a wine, asked her to
switch off the light in the room so that he could kiss her.
After the young lady didn’t do as he had said, Igbeneghu
soon stood up to switch off the light himself before going back on the sofa
they both seated to pull her close to himself for what he described as a “cold
room” experience.
According to the lecturer, the “cold room” is a place within
the school’s senior staff club where he and his colleagues take female students
to for sexual pleasure.
Since the video went public, there have been reactions from
all across the country with many prominent voices calling for a quick action by
the government to arrest sexual harassment in higher institutions in the
country.
Apart from being axed by Unilag, the Foursquare Gospel
Church in Nigeria also announced the suspension of Igbeneghu on Monday.
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