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Sex-for-grades: NANS presidential aspirant opens online sexual assault register

An aspirant for the presidency of the National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS), Comrade Sunday Asefon has opened an online register for students who have been assaulted sexually either for marks or cash by both male and female lecturers.

The link made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, introduced “Name and Shame” as a viable weapon to expose any lecturer whose name was repeatedly mentioned by students of same university. The link is https://bit.ly/2OBwzFx

Leading this campaign, Comrade  Asefon, a student of Ekiti State University and Ex-South west Coordinator of NANS, promised  to publish a graphical result of the poll when he eventually becomes the NANS President.

Contained in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media and Public Communications, Pelumi Fasogbon, the presidential aspirant admonished “all sexually victimized student to sign up the petition, which shall be presented to FIDA, ICPC, NUC, ASUU, Governing Councils of tertiary institutions affected and if possible, prosecute same depending on the availability of weighty documentary evidence”.

“As NANS President, my leadership shall restore academic discipline back to campuses and never again shall students be threatened by academics or nonacademics for success.

“The Public Register is available online and we shall Name-Shame anyone whose name appears more than once. The era of sexual impunity is over”, Asefon assured.

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