An undergraduate student at Anchor university, Lagos, identified as Evangel Ganiyu reported that she was allegedly molested by one of the laborers doing renovation work in the school premises.
“The university is currently undergoing renovation and remodeling, especially in the hostels, in order to accommodate new students, As a result, they hire a lot of unskilled labour workers.
“Today, I woke up to feel the weight of somebody beside me. I believed it was my friend who slept over. It wasn’t. The person in this photo who goes by Uche Okoro, was beside me in bed, almost fully naked, with his shorts hanging so low off his body I could see his butt. I got up and screamed for him to get out of my room. I then went to report to my porter, who reported to the supervisor.
“The supervisor then called me to come and identify the boy from the lineup of workers, which I did. I identified him and he immediately started denying that he had done anything of the sort. I insisted that he was the one and he kept denying.
“It wasn’t until another female student who he had been peeping on in the bathroom this same morning came and identified him as the perpetrator that he started pleading and saying he was sorry.
Ganiyu further revealed that upon questioning from the Vice Chancellor, Oye Bandele, which she answered she was blamed for the being harassed by Uche Okoro in her hostel and further accused for being a bad girl.
In her words: “I called my father and told him everything. After all this, they took him to the security unit, my super then took me to the Vice Chancellors (PROFESSOR Samuel Oye Bandele) office to explain the situation.
“I told him what had happened. He proceeded to ask me the following questions: “were your clothes on?” “Was your underwear on?”, to which I answered yes and yes. He then asked me how old I was. I told him. He then said that I am not a two-year-old girl, saying that how will I not know if a man penetrated me or not.
“He then says that I am a bad girl, that I am being economical with the truth and that I should be tested (by a male doctor btw) because I was being shady. Please, hear me out.
The student revealed that this is not the first time such will happen and the Vice Chancellor will be blaming the victim, she implored social media users where she dropped her story to help fight justice for her.
“This is not the first time something like this is happening in this school where a female student is abused, and the school tries to cover it up by shaming her or telling her to forgive and forget.
“I have had multiple bad experiences in this school and I have never gotten justice. Please don’t let it happen again. Please hold Anchor University accountable for the multiple ways they discriminate their female students.”