The Head of European Studies at the University of Ghana (UG), Professor Ransford Edward Gyampo, has been implicated in the latest ‘sex for grades’ investigative documentary by the BBC’s Africa Eye.

Prof Gyampo, according to excerpts of the documentary which is yet to be premiered at 6 pm tonight, was seen making what the narrator described as “numerous inappropriate demands” from the BBC reporter who posed as a student of the University of Ghana.

The secret video recordings also captured Prof Gyampo allegedly requested the lady’s hand in marriage in exchange for academic favours.

Prof Gyampo also allegedly asked for a kiss from the reporter in an excerpt of the video published on BBC Somalia’s Twitter handle.

However, the BBC also reports that Prof Gyampo refuted the accusations against him, citing entrapment. 

Apart from Prof Gyampo, another lecturer at UG, Dr Paul Kwame Butakor, was also caught on camera making sexual advances at the undercover female reporter who posed as a student.

After gathering dozens of testimonies of alleged sexual harassment with the promise for grades and other favours, the BBC Africa Eye undercover journalists posed as students inside the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana.

The undercover reporters were sexually harassed, propositioned and put under pressure by senior lecturers at the institutions – all the while wearing secret cameras.

Reporter Kiki Mordi, who knows first-hand how devastating sexual harassment can be, reveals what happens behind closed doors at some of the region’s most prestigious universities.

Barnaamijka dabogalka BBC-da ee Afrika Eye ayaa muuqaalo qarsoodi ah ka duubay macalimiin jaamacadeed oo faroxumeyn kula kacaya gabdho arday ah. pic.twitter.com/GGoTiEZMYF

— BBC News Somali (@BBCSomali) October 7, 2019