ASUU rejects Sexual Harassment Offences Bill...

Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has rejected the ongoing Sexual Harassment Offences Bill, in the Senate, saying the bill was targeted at lecturers. 

The body described the bill as vindictive and insisted that it undermined university autonomy.
Speaking At a public hearing on the bill,yesterday in Abuja that was organised by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, ASUU, through its president, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, asked the Senate in particular and the National Assembly, in general not to allow the bill have its way. 
According to him, the nation’s universities and tertiary as a whole, were established by law as autonomous bodies and so, have their regulating roles. Professor Ogunyemi said the existing law prescribed punishments over misconduct generally among both staff and students,adding that the law clearly articulated appropriate redress mechanism. 
He also said the bill was discriminatory because it was targeted at educators, insisting that it was unfair to come up with such a bill. He stressed that sexual harassment was a societal problem and not peculiar to tertiary institutions and so tertiary institutions should not be singled out for such law just as he said the bill was a violation of Section 42(1) of the 1999 Constitution , adding that it was embarrassing that the legislative arm could seek to make such that violated the constitution.

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