The Tamale Central legislator says the BBC is justified to use unconventional means to expose the lecturers implicated in its ‘Sex for grades’ exposé.
According to Inusah Fuseini, the move was necessary due to the power relations between students and their lecturers.
“It was going to be exceedingly difficult to get students to come out and testify against their lecturers,” he told host Samsom Lardy Anyenini on JoyNews’ news analysis show Newsfile, Saturday.
The ‘Sex for grade’ documentary was produced by the BBC Africa Eye to expose alleged cases of sexual harassment at some premier universities in the West African sub-region including the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and University of Ghana.
The BBC sent female undercover reporters to the campuses of the two universities where it reported that they were sexually harassed, propositioned and put under pressure by senior lecturers – all the while wearing secret cameras.
Two lecturers at the University of Ghana were captured in the documentary and accused of engaging in sexual harassment on campus.
However, the documentary has received a backlash from a section of Ghanaians who say there was no portrayal of sex for grades in the documentary they have seen.
The Dean of the School of Communication Studies at Wisconsin International University College, Prof Kwame Karikari, has said the documentary is not a good example of journalistic work.
But Mr Fuseini said the documentary was able to prove that some lecturers misconduct themselves when in close contact with their students.
“They wanted to demonstrate that when lecturers come in close proximity to their students, misconduct or inappropriate conduct occurs”.
As at now, a seven-member committee has been set up by the University of Ghana to investigate the allegations levelled against the implicated lecturers.
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