UNICAL female law students protest Dean’s sexual harassment on campus

Female students of the faculty of law, University of Calabar, South south Nigeria on Monday embarked on protest alleging sexual assault against them by the Dean, Professor Cyril Ndifon.

In the protest, they are demanding for an end to sexual exploitation by the Dean of the faculty, saying that they are tired.

The students openly displayed placards bearing various inscriptions: “We are tired of sucking dicks,” was boldly scribbled in black ink on a white placard which the students held to express their grievances against Mr Ndifon, dean of the law faculty, according to a video shared on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday.

“Prof Ndifon, let the girls with big breasts breathe, stop suffocating us!!!,” reads another placard which a female student waved.

The disgruntled students, majority of whom were female and dressed in the signature white shirts on black skirts, had gathered in front of a storey building presumed to be the law faculty, chanting “go”.

At the time the protest was being monitored by some journalists who have been hinted on the development the previous night, the Vice Chancellor was not believed to be around and no staff of the university came out to address the aggrieved students.

It was recalled that Mr Ndifon had been accused of sexual harassment of female students in 2016 which he was suspended by the school management, particularly on the alleged rape of a 20-year-old student in his office.

The students hinted the school management may want to keep a lid on the allegations, with another placard that read “Enough of law school list manipulation.”

Accompanied by a few of their male counterparts, the female law students said they were not “bonanzas” and that the law faculty was not a “brothel” for Mr Ndifon to keep “grabbing” them.

They insisted that “professor Ndifon must go” for their “sanity.”
The school management could not be immediately reached for comments as their contact lines have all been switched off.

Sexual assault allegations are rampant in Nigerian institutions where lecturers demand sex from female students in exchange for good grades.