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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Cameroon university students and indecency: A serious cause for concern

By Mercy Nahnyoung  Kusi

It is shameful. It is unbelievable. Yet, it is factual that indecency in the university milieus in Cameroon is now very common. If you doubt this, then take a walk around varsity campuses or students’ residential quarters around the country and see for your self how indecent and immoral some varsity students especially girls have become.

 In the name of fashion or some hidden motive, they dress to “kill.” And sooner or later, womanizers- young men, fathers and grandfathers- fall for them. How cheap some men can be.
But how do these young girls dress? They deliberately-with commercial intention, wear dresses that expose their sensitive body parts such as breasts, laps, navels, and even buttocks. Indeed, some female students have chosen, as their way of life, to always wear but transparent clothes. Why? This is to permit men to see through and get aroused.

Apparently conscious that men get sexually excited by sight and women by touch, by dressing half-naked these self-seeking girls are indirectly inviting men for coitus mainly in exchange for money and other material things. How materialistic the world has become! How sexually immoral many girls and women have become! Even men too.

According to the Oxford Advanced Learners’ dictionary, indecency is defined as any act or behavior that is obscene or improper. By this it refers to any habit, dressing style or mannerism in society that sets tongues wagging.

Nowadays, especially in the university area, you find reckless alcohol consumption by mostly by students, indecent dressing and odd dating habits. These poor habits have forced some well-cultured and elderly people to wonder if universities are institutions with unlimited freedom. 

Frightened by these poor habits around university milieus, you could now hear parents vowing not to send their beloved young girls to universities. They are afraid they will get spoilt.

Universities are supposed to be training grounds for good learning and behavior. But some children deceive their parents to send them there, and when their poor parents make all the sacrifices to get them enrolled there, the students become wayward .Some of them stay away from classes for up to a month without any convincing justification;then,you find them in bars, hotels and parties in the name of living their lives.

Excited and or poor female students go the extra mile of selling their bodies to men, some old enough to be their fathers and grand fathers. They argue that they want to meet up with their wants. I call them wants because most of these girls before leaving their respective homes are provided with their basic needs such as pocket allowance, house rents, and food stuff.

I have found out that the growing spirit of materialism and love for easy –come money are making young people- especially women, mad. 

Young women, why not discipline your selves and study hard to become successful women in society.
 Men especially students, are now scammers, defrauding people and companies in and out of country simply to spend on cheap women and to support their seemingly  luxurious  lifestyles. How are students in this category going about their courses? Even if some of them claim that with money they can buy their degrees, let them be informed that if they succeed to buy, when they act, it will not reflect the level of qualification they claimed to have attained.   

The efforts of the University of Buea(UB), the place to be, in checking indecency must be saluted here .It is heart-warming to learn that the Administration of University of Buea has launched a war against indecency. Visiting the university, one finds the institution’s security agents checking and stopping those who are indecently dressed. 

Shouldn’t other varsities or institutions of higher learning in the country emulate the example of UB in combating indecency?

Parents and guardians are strongly advised to make their children cultivate only good habits, and be advocates of decency, morality and probity. They should warn their children against joining bad associations, because bad associations spoil good habits.

The Bible in Proverbs 19:18 advises: “Discipline your children while they are young enough to learn. If you don’t, you are helping them to destroy themselves”
No matter how we are, we are all children of some parents.

The Bible advises children to obey their parents in order to live longer and happier. Fighting indecency is a collective responsible.

First published in The RECORDER Newspaper ,Cameroon,of February 17,2012

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