Rawlings Condemns "Sex for Grades" In Tertiary Institutions

FORMER PRESIDENT, JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS

Former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings has waded into conversations surrounding the BBC African Eye's "Sex for Grades" documentary in tertiary institutions.

Describing the practice as a humiliation against students, he said it was synonymous to breaking the moral fabric of society.

Addressing executives of the Ghana Journalists Association at his residence as part of the Association’s 70th-anniversary celebration, the former President said tertiary institutions must ensure transparency in their grading systems to help curb the sex for grade practice.

“We should not be taking human beings through such humiliation. I think it is bad and as corruptible as breaking the moral fabric of a society and nothing can be as bad as this. It is a shortcut towards destroying people’s lives. How can we ensure that this thing has much transparency? If GIMPA can do it, there is no reason why other places cannot do the same,” Rawlings said.

The "Sex for Grades" documentary captured some Ghanaian and Nigerian University lecturers in compromising positions with investigators who posed as students to ascertain the veracity of many allegations of sexual harassment levelled by some former University students against some lecturers.

The University of Ghana has subsequently constituted a special committee to investigate the lecturers indicted