The University of Ghana has exonerated two of its lecturers cited in the BBC Africa Eye ‘Sex for grades’ documentary.
According to the fact-finding committee of the university, Professor Ransford Gyampoh and Dr Paul Kwame Butakor were not guilty of engaging in any act of exchanging sex for grades, as purported by the documentary.
They were, however, found guilty of misconducting themselves and hence bringing disrepute and embarrassment to the name of the university.
Bothe lecturers, based on the committee’s findings have been recommended to the university’s disciplinary committee for the appropriate disciplinary action to be taken against them.
BBC Africa Eye in a documentary released last year, revealed the two lecturers soliciting inappropriate favours from students.
The BBC says the two lecturers were the main focus of the documentary, as it had received numerous received reports that these two were allegedly harassing female students on campus.
BBC resorted to the use of secret filming of the lecturers after enough evidence had been gathered.
Despite the availability of the video, the fact-finding committee saw no wrongdoing on the part of the lecturers.
The committee’s report said it found no evidence that both Dr Butakor and Prof. Gyampoh had breached the university’s policy on sexual harassment.
It also read; “On the totality of the evidence before it, there is a huge variance between the import of the title: ‘Sex for grades’, and the content of the actual secret video recording of the affected lecturers of the University of Ghana.”
