The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) warned that sexual harassment constitutes a corrupt practice that attracts imprisonment of not less than seven years.
Clifford Oparaodu, Secretary to the commisdion disclosed this yesterday in Abuja at a one-day sensitisation workshop on: Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Institutions.
Oparaodu said ICPC regarded sexual harassment as a corrupt practice; hence, there was a need for victims to know their rights and how to seek justice.
The ICPC scribe expressed concern that sexual gratification has become a form of “illegal tender” in many institutions.
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“Sexual harassment is a form of corruption,” he stressed.
He explained that it is a deviation from the norm, for an official to use his/her office or position to demand, receive, obtain, or attempt to obtain any form of sexual gratification for him/her to perform his/her duties.
“Ideally, official duties ought to be carried out with integrity, good conscience and diligence, without the expectation of any unlawful benefit,” he said.
According to him, Section 2 (f) of the ICPC Act states that gratification includes any service or favour of any description.
“Section 8 of the ICPC Act states: ‘Any person who corruptly asks for, receives, or obtains any property or benefit of any kind for himself or any other person, is guilty of an offence of official corruption and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.’
