Posted by Prof Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), who is accused of sexual harassment, was remanded in Kuje Prison on Monday by an Abuja Federal High Court.
Ndifon, who is being prosecuted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) before Justice James Omotosho, has pleaded not guilty to the four-count indictment.
On October 30, 2023, the ICPC filed the charge against Ndifon under the file number FHC/ABJ/CR/511/23 through its lawyer, Ebenezer Shogunle.
In count one, the defendant was accused of using his office and position to gratify himself by soliciting nude photographs and videos from a year 2 diploma female university student via Whatsapp chats on his phone number: 08037066222, in violation of and punishable under Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Act of 2000.
In count two, he was accused of corruptly requesting nude photographs and videos from a 400-level female student of the Faculty of Law with the intention of changing her project supervisor to himself in order to ensure favourable grades for her, an offense that was contrary to and punishable under Section 8(1)(a) (il) of the agency’s Act.
In count three, he was accused of corruptly requesting to see images of a 16-year-old prospective post-UTME female student as an inducement to consider her for admission to the Faculty of Law, which is illegal and punishable under Section 18(d) of the Act.
Count four accused him of causing a female student to send him pornographic, indecent, and obscene photographs of herself via Whatsapp chats on his phone number: 08037066222 between May and September 2023, which is prohibited and punishable under Section 24 of the Cybercrime (Prohibition & Prevention) Act, 2015.