Students express displeasure over NASS’s failure to pass Anti-Sexual Harassment Bill

Students express displeasure over NASS’s failure to pass Anti-Sexual Harassment Bill

A coalition of Nigerian students has expressed their displeasure over the failure of the National Assembly to pass the ‘Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal of Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Educational Institutions Bill, 2019’, describing it as the epic of injustice.

While describing sexual harassment in schools as “a core problem and setback for educational development in Nigeria”, the over 1,000 students in a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday said investigations by them indicated that the Bill had not reached the Presidency under Muhammadu Buhari before he left office.

They suggested that the current administration should do the needful to protect the dignity of students.

Among the students who endorsed the statement were Adedoja Oluwatobi Emmanuel (University of Lagos); Princess Deborah Omosuyi (UNILAG); Ayodele Ayishat Ajoke (University of Ilorin); Idoko Felicia Ehicohwoicho (University of Abuja); and Enahoro Osadebhamie Emmanuella (Caleb University).

Others were Faidat Balogun (Noble Heart Children Foundation); Olajide Oluwaseun (Yaba College of Technology); Omem Tusuro Dilli (Federal University Wukari, Taraba State); Abdullahi Ikimot (Federal University Oye Ekiti); Latifat Akinyemi (Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin); Ayodele Salaudeen (University of Ibadan); Aduloju Oluwanifesimi )Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife) and Akinlabi Abosede Marvellous (Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, Ogun State).

The aggrieved students had in a petition to the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege demanded the facilitation of the passage of the Bill.