University of Ghana Professor, Ransford Gyampo has disclosed that the BBC ‘sex for grades’ expose which he featured prominently in some years back was a ploy to tarnish his image.
According to him, he was in the running to be selected a running mate to an unnamed presidential candidate, and described the expose as a move to destroy his viability and chances of being Vice President of Ghana.
Two University of Ghana lecturers, Ransford Gyampo and Paul Butakor were suspended for six months and four months respectively without pay, after a BBC investigation reported they had sexually harassed undercover reporters posing as students in 2020.
However, the two maintained that they were innocent of the allegations leveled against them.
“Well, you saw everything that happened. They said ‘sex for grades’ but you didn’t see me having sex with anybody and you didn’t see me doing what they claimed with any student. So, if there was no student, there was no sex, why do you talk about grade and grade changing?
“It was an orchestration, simply because I was the one that somebody whose name I will not mention had selected as his running mate” Gyampo stated in an interview with on the 3FM.
He denied claims of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) being responsible for tarnishing his image.
“It was not an orchestration by the current opposition party. People say it was NPP that did that to me; no, but it was simply because I was going to be made the running mate to somebody.”
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