{"id":3593,"date":"2023-11-23T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/sexual-harassment-is-a-corrupt-act-attracts-7-years-prison-term-icpc-warns\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T16:08:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:08:07","slug":"sexual-harassment-is-a-corrupt-act-attracts-7-years-prison-term-icpc-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/sexual-harassment-is-a-corrupt-act-attracts-7-years-prison-term-icpc-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual harassment is a corrupt act, attracts 7 years prison term \u2013 ICPC warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), says sexual harassment is a corrupt practice that can result in a seven-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Clifford Oparaodu, the Commission\u2019s Secretary, issued the warning in Abuja during a One Day Sensitization Workshop on Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Institutions.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the ICPC considers sexual harassment to be a corrupt practice, thus victims must be aware of their rights and how to seek justice.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed concern that sexual enjoyment had become \u201cillegal tender\u201d in many institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSexual harassment is a form of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a deviation from the norm for an official to use his\/her office or position to demand, receive, obtain, or attempt to obtain any form of sexual gratification for him to perform his duties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdeally, official duties ought to be carried out with integrity, good conscience, and diligence without the expectation of any unlawful benefit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sexual harassment is a corrupt act, attracts 7 years prison term \u2013 ICPC warns<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), says sexual harassment is a corrupt practice that can result&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2727,15],"tags":[2728,180],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-icpc","category-news","tag-icpc","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}