Ovie Omo-Agege, the deputy Senate president, said some members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) firmly opposed the passage of the anti-sexual harassment bill during the eight National Assembly.
The Herald gathered that Omo-Agege made this known on Monday, December 9, while speaking at a policy dialogue on the anti-sexual harassment bill in Abuja.
He said: “During a public hearing on the bill which seeks to protect our children in universities from sexual harassment by lectures, some members of ASUU vehemently opposed the passage of the bill.
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“It is a fiduciary relationship of authority, dependency and trust where the educator, like a good and responsible parent, exercises supervisory responsibilities over the student.
“It is formed on an unwritten code of absolute honour and obligation of good faith, honesty, dignity, and care to be held inviolable.
“No educator has the moral right to exploit the special student-educator relationship for repulsive personal satisfaction.
“No one should be allowed to exploit seeming weaknesses in our existing legal frameworks to make life unbearably for our students, especially our female student.
“As a father, I am confident that I speak for an overwhelming majority of our citizens that sexual predators who operate on our campuses of tertiary education do not represent who we are as a people. We have a duty to stop them.”
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