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The Nigeria’s Senate has passed the Sexual Harassment Bill which sought to redress sexual harassment of students in tertiary educational institutions, passed the Sexual Harassment Bill which sought to redress sexual harassment of students in tertiary educational institutions.<\/p>\n

The bill entitled: “A Bill For An Act To Prevent, Prohibit And Redress Sexual Harassment Of Students In Tertiary Educational Institutions And For Matters Concerned Therewith, 2019\u201d was passed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

This followed the presentation of the report of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters by Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele.<\/p>\n

While presenting the report, Bamidele noted that the bill was sponsored by the Deputy President of the Senate Ovie Omo-Agege and co-sponsored by 106 senators.<\/p>\n

He said that the bill was read for the first time on Wednesday, October 9, 2019 while on Wednesday, November 6, was passed through second reading.<\/p>\n

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According to Bamidele, the objectives of the bill was to prohibit the offence of sexual harassment of students of tertiary institutions and criminalise the act of neglect or failure of administrative heads of tertiary educational institutions to address complaints of sexual harassment within a specified period of time.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreate a strict liability offence by removing mutual consent as a defense in the prosecution of sexual harassment cases in tertiary educational institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that the committee members with stakeholders at the public hearing supported the passage of the bill except the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe observed that sexual harassment in our tertiary institutions is one of the major factors responsible for the decline in academic excellence in the country today, as hard work, merits and transparency have been compromised by this ugly trend.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has provided a hostile learning environment for students, thereby creating an enabling atmosphere for mediocrity, indiscipline and inefficiency in our tertiary institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat the absence of a legislation to particularly mitigate the menace of sexual harassment in our tertiary institutions is the reason for the overwhelming rise in cases of sexual harassment as have been reported in recent times.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is of the view that the Bill is ad hominem because it targets a particular community, which in this case, are the educators in the tertiary institutions, whereas sexual harassment is a general societal problem that is not peculiar to tertiary institutions alone;.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contributing, Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege said the Senate was seeking to elevate students in tertiary institutions who were otherwise adults, who ordinarily ought to be covered by extant laws dealing with rape.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this crime were committed against a minor, that is those under 18 years, under the extant laws, it is a strict liability offence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leader of the Senate, Yahaya Abdullahi said that the evidence of facts and intentions should be looked at under the Act.<\/p>\n

Sen. Babba Kaita (APC-Katsina) said that the essence of the bill was for a lecturer or staff not to use his office to exploit an innocent girl.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe essence should be that a student who has reported or has been harassed by a lecturer can be able to report to the institution so that she can seek redress.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his remarks, President of Senate Ahmad Lawan said that this was one very important and landmark legislation that the ninth Senate had passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to protect our daughters, sisters and mothers from predators.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe pray that those educators don\u2019t have to be taken before the courts of law for any offence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want our tertiary institutions to be very important, very safe and peaceful learning environment for everyone and this is a legislation that will ensure that,\u201d Lawan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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