Alleged Sex Scandal: Suspended UNICAL Professor Remanded In Kuje Prison

By Abraham UKPA

A Federal High Court has ordered that Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar charged with alleged sexual harassment, to be remanded in Kuje prison in Abuja.

Ndifon, who is being prosecuted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) before Justice James Omotosho, however, pleaded not guilty to the four - count charges.

At the Court proceedings, the defendant was alleged to have, between June and September 2023, used his office and position to gratify himself by soliciting for nude photographs and videos from a year 2 diploma female student of the University, an offence punishable under Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Act, 2000.

 The defendant was also said to have corruptly requested for nude photographs and videos from a 400 level female student of the Faculty of Law with the plan of changing her project Supervisor to himself to guarantee favourable grades for her and such offence was contrary to Section 8(1)(a) (il) of the agency’s Act.

Other charges includes the defendant's alleged request to see photographs of a 16-year-old prospective post-UTME female student, as an inducement to consider her for admission into the Faculty of Law, while he was also accused of causing a female student to send pornographic, indecent, and obscene photographs of herself to him through WhatsApp chats on his telephone between May and September 2023, punishable under Section 24 of the Cybercrime (Prohibition & Prevention) Act, 2015.

The case was adjourned.