{"id":7241,"date":"2019-11-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/sexual-harassment-in-tertiary-institutions-bill-scales-second-reading-in-the-senate-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T00:00:00","slug":"sexual-harassment-in-tertiary-institutions-bill-scales-second-reading-in-the-senate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/sexual-harassment-in-tertiary-institutions-bill-scales-second-reading-in-the-senate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Harassment In Tertiary Institutions Bill Scales Second Reading In The Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Sexual Harassment in Tertiary\nEducational Institution Bill, 2019 (SB 77) passed for second reading in the\nSenate on Wednesday, 6 November 2019. The Bill, which is sponsored by the\nDeputy Senate President, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege (APC:Delta) seeks to prevent and prohibit\nsexual harassment in Tertiary Educational Institutions by providing a statutory\nframework with disciplinary procedures &nbsp;and criminal sanctions to address the cases of\nthe scourge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading the debate on the Bill, Sen.\nOvie Omo-Agege (APC:Delta) informed lawmakers that the Bill was intended to\ncurb sexual harassment in tertiary institutions and deter individuals that intend\nto exploit the vulnerability of students by providing appropriate penalties. &nbsp;He however stated that the Bill\u2019s provisions were\nlimited to tertiary institutions since fiduciary relationships existing between\nteachers and students in primary and secondary schools and employers and\nemployees was already covered in the Criminal and Penal Codes and other\nexisting legislation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking further, the Deputy Senate\nPresident enumerated that the sanctions of the Bill would extend to students\nwho falsely accuse educators of sexual harassment. The Bill prescribes\nexpulsion for those students in that instance. &nbsp;An analysis of the Bill during the lead debate\ntouched on the legal implication of the Bill\u2019s passage into law which includes\nan elevation of cases of sexual harassment in tertiary institutions to the\nstatus of Statutory Rape or a Strict Liability Offence to offer better\nprotection to students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He gave a breakdown of the contents of\nthe Bill, which comprises of 27 Clauses as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Clause\n1<\/strong>, which outlines the Objectives of the Bill;<\/li><li><strong>Clauses\n2 and 3<\/strong>, which deals with\nthe Relationship of Authority, Dependency and Trust;<\/li><li><strong>Clauses\n4, 5 and 6,<\/strong> which\ndeals with Offences constituting Sexual Harassment;<\/li><li><strong>Clauses\n8 to 14<\/strong>, which deals with\nthe Commencement of Criminal Proceedings, Penalty and Civil Action;<\/li><li><strong>Clause15,\n<\/strong>which deals\nwithInstitutional\nDisciplinary Measures;<\/li><li><strong>Clause\n16,<\/strong> which deals with an Independent Sexual\nHarassment Prohibition Committee;<\/li><li><strong>Clause\n17, <\/strong>which deals with Institutional\nDisciplinary Procedure;<\/li><li><strong>Clause\n18, <\/strong>on Judicial Review;<\/li><li><strong>Clauses\n19 and 20, <\/strong>whichspells\nout the Criminal Liability of Administrative Head;<\/li><li><strong>Clauses\n21 and 22, <\/strong>which\ndeals with the Liability of False Compliant;<\/li><li><strong>Clauses\n23, 24 and 25, <\/strong>which\ndeals with the Protection of Students from Victimization<\/li><li><strong>Clause\n26, <\/strong>which Defines certain Terms; and<\/li><li><strong>Clause\n27, <\/strong>which contains theCitation\n(Shortitle) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bill which is co-sponsored by 105 Senators has been referred to the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters for further legislative action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Lead-Debate-on-Sexual-Harassment-Bill-2019.pdf\">Click here to view the Lead Debate on the Bill<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ANTI-SEXUAL-HARASSMENT-IN-TERTIARY-BILL-2019.pdf\">here for the Bill<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Educational Institution Bill, 2019 (SB 77) passed for second reading in the Senate on Wednesday, 6 November 2019. The Bill, which is sponsored by the Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege (APC:Delta) seeks to prevent and prohibit sexual harassment in Tertiary Educational Institutions by providing a statutory framework with disciplinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"PLAC","author_link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/author\/olumide-adebayo\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/sexual-300x174.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 6, 2019","modified":"Updated on November 6, 2019"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 6, 2019 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on November 6, 2019 12:00 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}