{"id":1216950,"date":"2022-10-05T16:04:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/sex-for-grades-is-corruption-buhari-2\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:04:20","slug":"sex-for-grades-is-corruption-buhari-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/sex-for-grades-is-corruption-buhari-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex for grades is corruption &#8211; Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"35\">\n<p><figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Muhammadu  Buhari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s President Muhammadu Buhari says sexual harassment in the country\u2019s universities has reached alarming proportions, and law and order agencies are rightly treating it as a form of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a summit on tackling corruption in the public sector, President Buhari said he was aware students use different terms to describe different forms of corruption they experience on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is sorting or cash for marks\/grades, sex for marks, sex for grade alterations, examination malpractice, and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Buhari, who did not provide any statistics, noted that the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission is investigating and prosecuting sexual harassment as an abuse of power in educational institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI approve and encourage them to continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BBC in 2019 exposed sexual harassment at two universities in Nigeria and Ghana, in\u00a0<strong>an investigative piece dubbed \u201csex for grades\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"5G3sZdrBob4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Flood Impact: Unidentified vehicle crashes woman to death on Cape Coast highway (4-10-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5G3sZdrBob4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari Nigeria\u2019s President Muhammadu Buhari says sexual harassment in the country\u2019s universities has reached alarming proportions, and law and order agencies are rightly treating it as a form of corruption. Speaking at a summit on tackling corruption in the public sector, President Buhari said he was aware students use different terms to describe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}