SEX FOR GRADES?
Having watched the BBC Africa Eye documentary with the above title I think that the story told does not match the message sought to be conveyed to the public by the title.
Beyond the jokes and giggles I have decided to critically analyze what the BBC has put out and I conclude that the decision to publish the video is a very serious error on the part of the people who decided to air the video .
This is because this whole work involved people’s precious reputation and there can be no room for error or to stretch the argument. The allegation and what is put forward to established or substantiate it must be on all fours.
What was alleged? That some lecturers in some African universities sleep with their female students in return for high grades. It amounts to accusing the lecturers of the criminal offense of blackmail or extortion.
What is expected from the accusers’ video? BBC and it’s collaborators were supposed to present to us evidence. Hard evidence. That a lecturer had sex with a student and indeed gave a grade A to that student because of the sex. Or that a student who was poor in class obtained a grade A or B because of a sexual encounter she had with a particular lecturer. Or that a female student, but for sex had with her lecturer could not have obtained the grade A or B she was awarded in a particular subject. It also means the lady must have read a course taught by the lecturer.
Is this what happened in the video? NO. No sex. No evidence of a grade upgrade as a result of sex. No evidence that a lady wrote an exam and the result slip showed a higher grade than deserved, if we look at what was written on the examination answer sheet.
In the end the BBC only established that some lecturer was lewd in his conversation with somebody who was not even a student or even if she was, she did not have sex and definitely did not write any official exam organized by the University.
Sex was discussed but not had. No grades were awarded because of sex. So why sex for grades? Was that even a proposal ? More questions than answers.
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