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Vocal political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo today broke down in front of his students during lectures as he was jeered by his student after the BBC released an undercover report showing him soliciting amorous relationship from a female student in the trending “Sex for Grades” exposé.
Whatsup News is in possession of a 26-second amateur video of a weeping Prof. Gyampo in front of his students. “…he is subjected to a small bit of what politicians are subjected to daily in this country,” commentator noted.
Professor Gyampo, who is also the Head of European Studies at the university was captured in an Africa-wide undercover BBC report to expose the notorious ring of university lecturers who harass or solicit female students for sex in return for high academic scores.
According to the BBC report, Professor Gyampo lured a BBC reporter posing as a female student seeking academic favours, to an unnamed shopping mall Casanova-style, and sweet-talk the lady, including promising to marry her.
In excerpts of the report released on BBC Somalia’s Facebook page, Professor Gyampo persuaded the reporter to meet him at the mall where he was caught on camera making “numerous [alleged] inappropriate demands.”
In the report, he also allegedly requested to kiss the reporter.
BBC Africa Eye sent their team of undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana, where the disturbing trend of sex-for-grades were exposed.
The lead reporter in the exposé, Kiki Mordi, said she was also a victim of sexual harassment when she was in school.
The BBC said its female reporters were “sexually harassed, propositioned and put under pressure by senior lecturers at the institutions” while they were wearing secret cameras.
The reports available online also captured a promiscuous lecturer at the University of Lagos, Dr. Paul Kwame Butakor, who was captured clearly making sexual advances at the undercover BBC reporter who posed as a student.
Meanwhile, an interview with Prof. Gyampoh in an interview with Citi FM shortly after the report was broadcasted, Prof. Gyampo denied the claim of sexual harassment, saying: “I didn’t see anything like that [in the video] and I have not done anything like that,” he said in the interview monitored by Whatsup News.
Published on the social media wall of the embattled lecturer hints at him beng entrapped. “I have been counselled to be silent on a matter of entrapment masterminded by a certain unscrupulous people with the aid of BBC (African Eye) against me,” he wrote. The Universities captured in the report considers such acts extremely inappropriate and a violation of code of conduct for lecturers. The fate of the exposed lecturers are however not certain at the moment. In some universities, such revelations, warrant immediate dismissal.