A lecturer exposed by a BBC documentary demanding s*x-for-grades has been seen crying in class.
Professor Ransford Edward Gyampo
Political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Edward Gyampo who was exposed in a recent s*x-for-grades documentary has been seen crying in class today.
The footage captured by a student showed the moment the lecturer was booed by the students as he came to teach today.
With teasing comments like ‘capture him’, ‘you did it’ in the background, Mr. Gyampo stood in front of a full class whose members did not fail to register their thoughts on the issue.
The reactions come on the back of allegations of his involvement in a sex-for-scandal expose.
In excerpts of the video released on BBC Somalia’s Facebook page, Professor Gyampo persuaded the reporter to meet him at the mall where he was caught on camera making “numerous [alleged] inappropriate demands.”
In the report, he also allegedly requested to kiss the reporter.
Barely hours after the release of the video, he’s already denied;
“I didn’t see anything like that [in the video] and I have not done anything like that,” he said in a Citi News interview Monday.
Background
The documentary was commissioned in response to allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers that have hovered over tertiary institutions.
After initial interviews, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana.
The lead reporter in the exposé, Kiki Mordi, said she was also a victim of sexual harassment when she was in school.
The BBC said its female reporters were “sexually harassed, propositioned and put under pressure by senior lecturers at the institutions” while they were wearing secret cameras.
The bulk of the excerpt released spent time in the University of Lagos and one of its lecturers alleged attempts to proposition a student seeking admission into the school.
A lecturer at the University’s College Of Education, Dr. Paul Kwame Butakor, was also indicted in the investigative piece.
He has also denied the claims.
It is expected that more lectures will be implicated in the exposé.
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