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<\/p>\nThe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the victim, holding a placard with the inscription, \u2018It\u2019s your right NOT to be sexually abused as a student\u2019, later spoke with newsmen on the matter.<\/p>\n
Bello was reportedly sexually abused while she was a student of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria in 2010, and the lecturer alleged to have molested her is now with Kaduna State University (KASU).<\/p>\n
Although, she declined detailed comment on what transpired, Bello told NAN that she will appear before the committee set up by Kaduna State University to investigate the lecturer, Mr Bala Umar, popularly known as AB Umar.<\/p>\n
According to her, sexual harassment of female students has been going on in tertiary institutions for long, as the victims were always unwilling to speak out.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have this going on in our academic institutions for long and we have been covering people, which is the \u2018Arewa silent culture\u2019 that we have been practicing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at it, what we normalize today, our children are going to pay for it later.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are hundreds before me, there will be hundreds after me, the hundreds after me are going to be my children\u2019s children and I will not be there to tell them I am sorry.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will not be there to tell them I sat down and did nothing, that I sat down and normalize the whole thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is something that had happened a long time, people think I am vindictive which I am not, because ABU to KASU is just 70 kilometers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are doing same there and you left there and come here and continue doing it, somebody has to stop you.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always have this notion in our society that if you come out and say it, nobody will marry you, the stigma is not bearable.<\/p>\n
\u201cAB Umar was my former lecturer in ABU, that is when and where it happened and there are some things that I can\u2019t just talk about.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a diploma student then in ABU in 2010, now I have been getting random calls threatening me, I just switched off my phones and I want to continue my protest, that is all,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Following her protest, the school authorities reportedly suspended the lecturer. They also constituted a committee to investigate him.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Salamatu Bello, a victim of alleged sexual harassment by a university lecturer, on Friday, staged a solo protest round Kaduna metropolis to highlight the plight of female students in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the victim, holding a placard with the inscription, \u2018It\u2019s your right NOT to be sexually abused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,2828,3],"tags":[11057,218,8006],"class_list":["post-163116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-education","category-news","tag-elrufai-2","tag-kaduna","tag-sex-for-mark"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}