After a two-month forensic analysis of call logs, videos and messages, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has filed more than 70 evidence against a former Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Prof. Cyril Osim Ndifon.
Ndifon is standing trial at a Federal High Court in Abuja for alleged sexual harassment, molestation and outright rape.
The offence of gratification carries a seven-year jail term if convicted.
Four current students and five alumni testified against the law lecturer when the university raised a panel of enquiry,
ICPC has lined up 15 witnesses, mostly students, against the lecturer for a trial which may be 80-90 per cent electronically based in court.
While some claimed that he had s*x with them forcibly, others alleged that he had MouthAction with them.
An admission seeker, in her written statement on November 14th, 2023, admitted that the don put his genital in her mouth and had s*x with her in order to get a slot to enter UNICAL.
She said on another day when she visited the don, he gave her a nylon bag with 11 used condoms to throw away.
According to ICPC, Ndifon has a case to answer for alleged abuse of office, especially when he was solely in charge of admission into the Faculty of Law.
The anti-graft commission said under the supervision of Ndifon, in UNICAL’s Direct Entry Admission for the year 2022/2023, only eight out of the 37 candidates shortlisted by the lecturer were eligible.
Ndifon, who is in addition standing trial with his counsel, Sunny Anyanwu for alleged obstruction of investigation, has pleaded on oath that he is not guilty.
He has been remanded in Kuje Centre of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) pending his admission to bail.
