A college in Nigeria has started shock after a video went viral appearing female understudies being touched to see if they were wearing bras some time recently taking portion in an exam.
In the film, female staff at Olabisi Onabanjo College in south-western Ogun State are seen touching a few students’ chests as they line to enter an examination hall.
The college has not however commented on the video, but a understudy pioneer guarded the bra approach as being portion of the institution’s dress code pointed at keeping up “a distraction-free environment”.
However, he recognized that other ways were required to uphold the arrangement that has been condemned by pundits as obsolete, sexist and compared to sexual assault.
A senior official at campaign bunch Human Rights Arrange told the BBC that understudies may sue the college for abusing their rights.
“Unwarranted touches on another person’s body is a infringement and may lead to lawful activity. The college is off-base to embrace this strategy to control disgusting dressing,” Haruna Ayagi said.
A understudy who did not need to be named told the BBC that the college upheld a strict ethical code in spite of not being a devout institution.
She said their dress were continuously being checked.
In reaction to the clamor, the president of the university’s students’ union, Muizz Olatunji, said on X that the college advanced “a dress-code approach pointed at keeping up a conscious and distraction-free environment, empowering understudies to dress unassumingly and in line with the institution’s values”.
He included that the approach was not unused, and the union had “engaged with the institution to investigate elective approaches to tending to disgusting dressing, centering on aware and stately intelligent between understudies and staff”.
He moreover distributed the dress code, which included a boycott on any dress “capable of making the same or inverse sex to desire after the understudy in an foul manner”.
The college was established in 1982 as Ogun State College when Olabisi Onabanjo was state representative. It was renamed after him in 2001.