CITATION the movie🎥💽

Will #sex_for_grades scandal ever stop? Are we really going to have repentant lecturers? How best do we handle lecturer-student relationship without obsession?

Ok, so I watched CITATION the movie and yea it's absolutely relatable. Note, this isn't a review.

To start with, I would like to commend the hardwork and ingenuity of the veteran movie producer Kunle Afolayan. 

The characterization is amazing and altogether the production is perfect. With casts like Temi Otedola starring as Moremi Oluwa and Ibukun Awosika who made their applaudable debut appearances, actors like Joke Silver, Gabriel Afolayan, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Adjetey Anang, Sadiq Daba and others on the list too made it a grand success.

The African heritage portrayed in the movie include the language, afro wears, artifacts and tourism. 

As a lover of language that I am, I was happy to hear fluent Yoruba, English and French language at the same time. I love the exploration within Nigeria, Senegal and Cape Verde.

I won't also hesitate to mention the setting of the movie, the great Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. The school has indisputably got great edifices.

Now to the subject matter, sex for grades and students' harassment by lecturers seem to be a norm in Nigerian tertiary institutions especially female students. Yielding to the request is seen as an escapade from wicked lecturer's den. 

It has become so casual in this perverse time. Imagine telling a friend that a lecturer is making advances to you and he's threatening to fail you, the response is likely going to be ''you better give him what he wants so he can free you.''

It would be recalled that a similar case portrayed in the movie was all up in the news some years back at the same university where an audio leaked. It was the voice of a male lecturer who was abusing power on a female student but whose appointment was thereafter terminated by the institution.

Do we really have to go this far by threatening people to do what is against their wish? Could it be a result of self- centeredness or greediness? I mean to say someone becomes so dogged at sleeping with a lady just to prove that you possess a power of life and death, failing and passing or what?

In the context of the movie, the lecturer Professor N'Dyare is hell bent on ruining brilliant students' lives at all cost seeing Moremi was obviously not his first. Just as a devil, he pretends to get close and then unleash his demonic attribute.

Right now, we have a lot of victims who are shut up inside because they have lost confidence in the school senate to vindicate them not to talk of the whole judiciary system.

Most students facing this might not be able to go the extra miles like Moremi did to travel to Senegal and bring a witness. The procedure seem so long and exhausting. Friends turn into foes and nickname you a ''saint'' just because you have decided to speak up against an anomaly.

Like I said earlier that I can relate but in my own case I wasn't threatened for grade, I was just scared for my life that if I turned down the request it might result into an ugly situation (story for another time). Anyways, God gave me wisdom and it dissolved somehow. I would even say that more than average of female students in tertiary students have had a case of sexual harassment with male lecturers.

My verdict on this still remains that female students set boundary between male lecturers. Overfamiliarity tend to bring a kind of bond that might eventually lead to obsession and infatuation which could turn to a story that touches. 

Students should be diligent so as to avoid a situation of going to beg a lecturer. 

Female students should endeavour to tell closest people to them when they notice unreasonable advances from male lecturers so they will have witnesses.

Lastly, both male and students should lean on God for wisdom. 

Citation the movie, has exposed this menace once again and has proven the fight against it can be won.

Even though you might not be a lecturer, I hope you ain't using your position to oppress other powerless individuals too.

I hope this spurs you to be good wherever you are and not abuse power and also teaches you to stand your ground in the face of adversity by ensuring justice is served at all cost.

Virtual hugs🤗🤗🤗