As the outcome of the probe the University of Lagos instituted over the allegation of sexual harassment against two of their lecturers is still being awaited, a vice chancellor has indicted parents on the menace.
The Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Professor Ibrahim Garba, is of the opinion that parents aid laziness and search for short cuts among undergraduates when they paper them with money.
He said during a phone-in Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) Kaduna programmee:
“University is not like secondary school as students are free on the assumption that they are matured. Since we don’t have the right to restrict the liberties given to the students by the system, we put in place measures that would protect them.
“The decay in our moral training is alarming. Parents no longer correct their wards where they go wrong. Children are now the ones controlling their parents. Some of these students are over pampered.
“Some parents have gotten illicit funds; therefore, they release this money to their children without control. You can have a student with money in her account that is far above her lecturer’s salary. You see students driving expensive cars or using expensive mobile phones.
“All these make the students lazy and therefore have to resort to other means to pass exams. This makes them to even take themselves to some bad elements among the lecturers for them to pass exams. However, we put stringent measures in place to punish anyone involves in this bad behaviour.”
