Sexual Harassment: More Woes For Ndifon As ICPC Files Criminal Charges Against Him
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has filed criminal charges against the suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), Professor Cyril Ndifon, following the commission’s conclusion of an investigation into the professor’s alleged gross misconducts against some of his students.
The ICPC has charged the senior lecturer with four counts of sexual harassment, official corruption, and abuse of office, in violation of sections 8, 18, and 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000.
One of the counts read: “That you, Professor CYRIL OSIM NDIFON (m) between June-September, 2023 at Calabar, within the jurisdiction of this honourable Court, and while being a public officer charged with responsibility for the certification of students as fit in learning and character as a prerequisite for the award of Bachelor’s degree in law and admission into the Nigeria Law School, used your office and position as the Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar to gratify yourself by soliciting for nude photographs and videos from one Ms. ABC (not real name), a year 2 diploma student of the University of Calabar, through WhatsApp chats on your telephone number 0803*** and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under S. 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000″.
Professor Ndifon will be arraigned in court at a later date to be determined by the court.
Remember that on October 4, 2023, the ICPC, in partnership with the Department of State Services (DSS), detained Professor Ndifon in Calabar, Cross River State, after he turned down repeated invitations.
Chronicle NG reported that a University of Calabar probe panel found Ndifon guilty of gross misconduct, intimidation, and bargaining for sexual favours from female students.
The University of Calabar’s investigation panel, which was formed to look into claims of sexual harassment of female students by the suspended Dean of the school’s Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), Prof. Cyril Ndifon, found the senior lecturer guilty of gross misconduct.
The report of the panel constituted to investigate Prof. Ndifon’s alleged misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of office, obtained by Chronicle NG, “established that the suspended Dean, Prof. Cyril Osim Ndifon, was using his official position to both intimidate and bargain for sexual favour from female students in the Faculty of Law.”
