The nation’s various higher institutions are reporting increasing corruption, which is not good to hear. Scandals of mind-numbing dimensions frequently make headlines. Female students report hearing their lecturers demand sex in exchange for a good grade. While lecturers force students to buy their handouts, students are heard bribing their as a high moral breeding ground.”
Civil society reaction
Meanwhile, Mr Stev Aluko, a parent and member of the Civil Society Organisation in Plateau State, in his opinion noted that failure on the side of parenting, poor school foundation, lack of teachers welfare and lack of enforcement of legal framework to deal with the happenings were the key drivers of the trend.
“Some of the lecturers deliberately create room for sorting especially the recruitment process; we have instances where people who were not deserving, people that didn’t merit to be lecturing in universities are the ones in those positions. And such people cannot perform; they will not be the very best; they will create problem.
“We have heard cases of sexual harassment, cases of sexual abuse, cases of deliberate witch-hunting; we have seen them. It is because we have people who are not supposed to be teaching at the level of a university.
“Where you don’t have professional teachers taking your child at one point or the other, it is going to affect the child. Also, where the welfare of the teachers is not taken care of, there is a problem.
“Government is not creating curriculum that will serve the people as they grow because the admission policy is one of the factors aiding this trend because those that merit admission are not given.
“And, of course, there is the societal factor of exam malpractice. We have seen schools indulging in it; we have seen some government officials indulging in it; we have seen some parents indulging in it. So, if you start with that foundation, you have to sort it out and in the end, the society suffers for it,” he maintained.