A former student of Ahmadu Bello University, (ABU), Zaria, Salamatu Bello, has disclosed why she protested against sex for grades.
Bello claimed she was sexually abused by a former lecturer of the university, A.B Umar, now a staff of Kaduna State University (KASU).
According to her, sex for grades have been going on for long in academic institutions in Nigeria but victims always remain silent for fear of stigmatisation.
In her one person protest, she was sighted holding placard against sexual harassment in universities along Bida Road in Kaduna, alleged that her life was been threatened by unknown persons.
She said: “We have this going on in our academic institutions for long and we will be covering it from our people which is the Arewa silent culture which we have been practising.
“What we have realised today, our children’s children are going to pay for it.
“Because left for me, there are going to be a hundred more after me but the hundred after me could be my children’s children and I may not be there for them.
“I can’t sit down and do nothing to normalise these immoral activities in our academic institutions.
“It’s something that had happened in a very long time but people think I’m being vindictive.
“I’m not vindictive because ABU to KASU is just 70 kilometres if you are doing something there and you left and come here and you keep doing it somebody has to stop you. Somebody just has to stop you.”