In a circulating social media post, Hon. Fred Mukasa Mbidde has taken to his keyboard to create a commentary about the recent Makerere University Sex scandal.
He starts by making a slight thesis “People have not Analyzed well the ingredients pertaining the whole story but let’s study them” he comments.
He goes on to lay a brief summary of the incident with his version of events according to what he has been reading from social media platforms.
“The Student is a graduate of the January shift. She was at Makerere merely for her transcript. She had office Sex with a lecturer. She recorded part of the phases of the sexual encounter by way of phone pics. The recorded picture shows the lecturer completely vulnerable and in an oral activity usually intended for the female partner to getting stimulated to full enjoyment. The whole scene exhibits the full aura of freedoms and choice between the parties. There is not a single sign of a scuffle and all files in the somewhat compact office seem intact”
From this version he makes a legal analysis as to what constitutes sexual harassment according to the law and lists the ingredients.
There must be “un welcome Sexual advances, verbal or physical harassment, bullying or Coercion, the harasser must have economic or social power over the victim” he analyses.
To the honorable, it looks like it’s a girl visiting her former boyfriend. His analysis stems from his observation that clearance of one’s transcript at Makerere like the story alleges is not done by a lecturer, but the academic registrar at Senate building.
“Once one graduates then by necessary implication all marks already left the lecturers docket and were captured by the registrar thereby graduating the student” he says and makes an addition that the lecturer at this stage has no material obligations or even control over the aspirations of the graduate warranting forcible sexual demands.
“In the absence of all the above, sexual harassment isn’t largely probable”
“The picture shows nothing other than consensual sex between two adults, two graduates, one teaching and the other leaving the same university” he concludes.
However, the learned fellow does not seem to have gotten the facts right which would be very fatal to any client’s/advocate’s case and fail one to sustain a plausible legal argument.
From the letter of dismissal, or the statement of the accused, Mr. Kisuze Edward, it shows that he is/was a senior administrative assistant at the academic’s registrar’s office, which places him and the incident at the senate building exactly in the transcripts office contrary to what he observes. His argument entirely lies on the fact that the accused was a lecturer, which was not the case.
A picture circulating on social media may seem to indicate that the Mr. Kisuze could have probably have known the victim or had a sexual relationship to support his position. The image shows that he posed for a photo with the victim way back on her graduation date.
However, when contacted, Mr. Kisuze has denied any knowledge of the picture, and that he is not the one in the alleged photo.
The circumstances of the case are however not clear, and varying opinions will rise even accusing the girl of staging the whole incident.
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