The fact-finding committee which was constituted to investigate the sex for grades scandal that hit the University of Ghana has exonerated one of the accused lecturers, Prof. Ransford Gyampoh.
The Committee’s report which has been cited by BestNewsGH.com was explicit that there was no shred of evidence to suggest and prove that Prof. Gyampoh violated the University’s policy regarding sexual harassment.
Prof. Gyampoh together with another lecturer Dr Paul Kwame Butakor were accused of soliciting sexual favours from female students of the University of Ghana in return for grades in a documentary carried out by a reporter of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) last year.
But the committee in its report rebuts the assertions and allegations against Prof. Gyampoh in the documentary, explaining that the title of the documentary was misleading, compared to the actual content of the secret video recording.
The committee’s report read in part that “The committee finds that on the totality of the evidence before it, there is a huge variance between the import of the title: ‘Sex for grades’, and the content of the actual secret video recording of the affected lecturers of the University of Ghana,”.
The report continued that ‘’ “The committee notes that neither the documentary nor the BBC has provided any evidence to demonstrate that the affected lecturers demanded sex in exchange for grades, as asserted by the title of the documentary: ‘Sex for grades’,”.
The committee which was chaired by Justice Vida Akoto-Bamfo, a retired Supreme Court Judge also discovered that the two ladies captured in the video were not students, nor members of the University of Ghana Community.
“Consequently, the committee notes that in the absence of any evidence that Zara and Abigail are students or members of the University of Ghana, the provisions of paragraphs 10.1, 12.1 and 12.4 of the Code of Conduct for Senior Members of the University of Ghana and the Anti-Sexual Harassment and Misconduct Policy of the university cannot be triggered against the affected lecturers,” the report added.
Other members of the fact-finding committee are Professor Charlotte Wrigley-Asante, Prof. Michael P.K. Okyerefo, Dr Abdul Baasit Aziz Bamba, Ms Doris Ansah and Mr W.N. Torvinyo.
Source: BestNewsGH.com
