Suspended UNICAL Professor Denies Soliciting Female Student’s Nude Pictures

The suspended Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Cyril Ndifon, has denied allegations that he solicited for nude photographs from a female student.

9News Nigeria reports that the ICPC alleged that Ndifon, while serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Law at UNICAL, requested the female Diploma student, identified as TKJ and a star witness, to send him “pornographic, indecent and obscene photographs of herself” through WhatsApp chats.

Ndifon, denied the allegations before Justice James Omotosho of a Federal High Court in Abuja while being cross examined by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, lawyer, Osuobeni Akponimisingha.

The professor said the female student, identified as TKJ, was like a daughter to him, as he denied that the conversations, pictures and videos extracted by the ICPC were from his phone.

He stated that he did not present the phone he claimed to have used in communicating with TKJ to the ICPC because the anti-corruption commission did not request for the student’s own phone.

Some of his words were;” I got to know her from her uncle. She did not send her nude pictures to me and I did not demand for her nude pictures,” he said.

Ndifon “They are not. If you look at it, we can’t vouch for them, they have been edited. I don’t even know where they got the conversations and videos from,” he said.

“The prosecution did not deem it necessary to investigate her phone, so why should I bring mine?” he said.

Ndifon, who admitted to have sent the N3, 000 to TKJ from his First Bank account, said he had given her money many times.

“I sent more than N3, 000 to her, sometimes I give her cash,” he said

Justice Omotosho adjourned the matter until Thursday for continuation of trial.

The Credible News outlet revealed that Ndifon, was charged alongside his lawyer, Samuel Anyanwu, with a four counts of charge sexual harassment, cybercrime and attempt to pervert the course of justice.

Anyanwu, one of the lawyers of the defence, was joined in the amended charge filed on Jan. 22, 2024, by the commission on the allegation that he called the star witness on her mobile phone during the pendency of the charge against Ndifon to threaten her, as they both pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to them.