“Sexual harassment allegations against me false”- UG Vice Chancellor

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof.  Ebenezer Oduro-Owusu says the sexual harassment allegations leveled against him by Andrea Pizziconi, CEO of Africa Integras, are false.

In an interview monitored by The Ghana Report , the VC said the “claims are untrue and can never be true”.

“ If you know me so well you wouldn’t be asking me that question. It can’t be true. I met her because of the project and I never met her alone. I have never had any personal engagement with her. All our meetings with this woman has been extremely business one”.

“I have been extremely careful not to have a one on one with her, I have always insisted we meet in teams and she rejected that but I told her my style is that we meet in teams. The last time I met her, she insisted we meet alone in my office but I went ahead to invite my Pro-VC and one other to the office and she was surprised to meet them in my office,”

The Vice Chancellor further said “it is not funny. It is not funny at all”

CEO of Africa Integras in a tweet said her company led a US$64million infrastructure investment at UG which was defaulted upon by the current VC.

“I have remained mostly quiet despite the battery of attacks by Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu on my dignity. I was advised not to make waves and definitely not to raise the #metoo flag if I wanted to put the project back on track, which I do. Now I feel compelled to speak up and draw a direct line between this sex scandal and our derailed project,” her post read.

She then went ahead to allege that at a UG Council meeting in August 2017, the VC suggested that the contract which was signed between herself and the past VC was invalid “as it was signed under duress in a hotel room.”

This is coming on the back of an investigative documentary by the BBC Africa Eye dubbed ‘sex for grades’ which implicated two lecturers at the University of Ghana. The two lecturers have however been interdicted.