True Confession: ‘What I Do When Girls Bring Their Breast To Me — Varsity VC

– New EKSU VC exposes some gimmicks used by female students

– Explains how lecturers can avoid being taken over by temptations from students

– Reveals what would be done to lecturers who give in to temptations

Like most university lecturers, newly-appointed vice chancellor of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Professor Samuel Oye Bamidele has been tempted by female students.

But the staunch believer and senior pastor with the Deeper Life Bible Church, during a recent interview with The Nation, explained how he managed to overcome such temptations when they arose and what punishment should be meted out to lecturers who allow themselves to be tempted.

“Some students will come with the intention to tempt you, trying to make eye contacts, and I will say, what are you trying to do? For you to be able to overcome temptation, you must resist it.

“I want to say that every human being is tempted at one point or the other. And maybe I should say it today, the power of being a Christian is that God will give you the ability, the unusual supernatural power to be able to overcome temptation without falling into it.

“There is a difference between temptation and falling into temptation. For example, we are all men here and that makes it good. Supposing a woman is here now, the atmosphere will not be the same.

“I will not say I have not been tempted in the sense that maybe an amorous person comes in, wanting to show a quarter of her breast. I will say, ‘Excuse me, go out and dress properly. As a lecturer, you can’t come into my office like that’,”the university don explained.

Speaking further, the pastor noted: “So, I want to say that to God be the glory, since I gave my life to Christ, I have not been tempted to the extent of falling, touching another person’s wife or student; never, never. And it is not only girls or women that cause temptation; some are tempted with money.

“They supervise students and collect money on projects. I supervise Ph.D students and I don’t take anything from them. You cannot even try me. So, all those ones, if you can keep yourself from being attracted by women or by money or material things of this world and you are contented, it will be easy for you to overcome temptation.

“But summarily, every human being will face temptation at one point or the other, but the power to overcome that temptation can only come from Christ.”

In order to checkmate the issue of sexual harassment of female students by male lecturers, the professor opined that, “We are trying to put some things in place that will checkmate some lecturers that cannot keep their libido, and to that extent, we are going to go through management and then the Senate to fashion out some strategies to protect our female students from sexual harassment. That one is being planned, I may not feel out everything now.

“Things are changing in this university and that is the truth. The head matters. If there is seriousness at the top, everybody will fall in line. They know that if I catch you sexually harassing female students, you will be in trouble. If as the vice-chancellor I am also one of those carrying girls and ladies around, I won’t have the mouth to tell those who are doing it to stop or sanction them in line with the rules.

“Now, it is no longer going to be business as usual. Some regulations will come out in a short while to checkmate all those things in terms of the dressing of the students, because students also can be harassers.

“Female students can harass male students by their amorous outlook. We want to checkmate those things and for the staff, admin, teaching and non-teaching, we are going to have some codes that will create a level of restriction as to how they can harass female students.”

Meanwhile, the federal government has moved to criminalise sexual harassment from lecturer to student in tertiary institution.

The bill titled the sexual harassment in tertiary educational institutions prohibition bill, 2016 was sponsored by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege representing Delta central senatorial district.

The bill which is co-sponsored by 45 other senators specifically makes it’s a criminal offence for any educator in a university, polytechnic or any other tertiary educational institution to violate or exploit the student-lecturer fiduciary relationship for sexual pleasures.

The bill imposes stiff penalties on offenders in its overall objective of providing tighter statutory protection for students against sexual hostility and all forms of sexual harassment in tertiary schools.

The bill provides a compulsory five-year jail term for lecturers who sexually harass students.