Nairobi, April 27 -- Sexual exploitation of female university learners by lecturers, has for decades permeated the fabric of higher learning institutions. Unwelcome, unsolicited and unreciprocated sexual overtures have been normalised and converted into an obscene cultural convention, that's used as a manipulative weapon to prey on female students.

Sexual misconduct of lecturers with a low moral compass, has become so pervasive, it has advanced from a prevalent endemic to a customary pandemic. Media houses across Eastern, Western and Southern Africa have published researched accounts of lecturers grossly abusing their leverage over students.

Verbal accounts by female students indicate that failure to abide by lecturers' lewd sexual dema...