Sex for Grades: It was a frame-up because I was chosen as running mate for presidential race – Gyampo

Professor of Political Science at University of Ghana, Ransford Gyampo has revealed that he was framed by some people who were opposed to his being selected by a certain presidential candidate as a running mate.

According to him, it was a ploy to tarnish his reputation by throwing dust into the public eyes and discourage the said candidate.

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 grade’ 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 Blakk Rasta on the 3FM Urban Blend Show on Friday 21st March, 2025.

Ransford Gyampo who is the president of the University of Ghana branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) emphasized that the University exonerated and even promoted him after their investigations proved his innocence as well as subsequently winning two consecutive UTAG elections.

He also debunked the assertion by some members of the public that the then New Patriotic Party (NPP) government which he was a serious critic of was behind the plot that framed him.

“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”

When asked why a credible media house like the BBC would lower its standards to do such a thing to him, Gyampo responded, “It was not done by the BBC, it was done by somebody here in Ghana who sold it to BBC Nigeria. They did it because of me not because of anybody. Some of the people that orchestrated that have come to apologize to me”.

“Initially I wanted to sue the BBC but on a second thought I decided to change my mind when I got to know the real reason this was done. Also, it was going to be a protracted litigation, and I wanted the matter to be properly investigated here” he added.

Source: 3news.com