The Senate on Thursday passed a bill to ban outlaw sexual advances from lecturers to students of tertiary institutions in the nation.
Any lecturer discovered liable to have violated the law, when passed, will risk a
minimum of five-year imprison term or N5m fine or both.
The Senate additionally annulled the "consent" defence claim by rape and assault suspects, as contained in the Criminal and Penal Codes.
The bill further states, “An educator shall be guilty of committing an offence of sexual harassment against a student if he or she solicits sex from or makes sexual advances towards a student when the sexual solicitation or sexual advances result in an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment for the student.
“Or directs or induces another person to commit any act of sexual harassment under this bill, or cooperates in the commission of sexual harassment by another person without which it would not have been committed; grabs or hug or rubs or strokes or touches or pinches the breasts or hair or lips or buttocks or any other sensual part of the body of a student.
“Or displays, gives or sends by hand or courier or electronic or any other means naked or sexually explicit pictures or videos or sex related objects to a student.
“Or whistles or winks at a student or scream or exclaims or jokes or makes sexual complimentary or uncomplimentary remarks about a student’s physique.”
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