On Monday, students of the faculty protested against Ndifon at the office of the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Florence Obi, carrying placards.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The University of Calabar (UNICAL) said it has begun investigating allegations of sexual harassment levelled against the dean of the Faculty of Law, Prof. Cyril Ndifon.
On Monday, students of the faculty protested against Ndifon at the office of the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Florence Obi, carrying placards. A video of their protest went viral on social media.
On their placards were written, “Ndifon must go for our sanity”, “We are tired of buying law journals”, “We are tired of lecturers not attending classes”, and “Law girls are not your bonanza; Prof. Ndifon should stop grabbing us and others.”
An online medium CrossRiverWatch, however, quoted Ndifon as denying the allegations, stating that the protest was orchestrated by individuals within the faculty who held a grudge against him.
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“For Christ’s sake, I don’t teach Year 2 B or Year one students, so I don’t know why they have chosen to drag my name into the mud. This was why I said earlier that the allegations were lies, cooked from the pit of hell, just to destroy a reputation that I had spent decades building,” he was quoted saying.
Spokesman of the university, Eyo Bassey, told PUNCH on Tuesday that the school management had met with the aggrieved parties.
“They (the students) were invited by the vice-chancellor. The staffers of the Faculty of Law were invited to come and address management as well as their senior faculty staff about whatever might have been their complaints.
“They spoke and raised a lot of issues. It is not even just about sexual allegations. There are all kinds of other issues they raised and management commended them for bringing the issues to their attention,” said Bassey.