Ugbe's appointment was made by the university’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Florence Banku Obi following the suspension of Prof. Cyril Ndifon, who was accused by the university's female law students of incessant sexual harassment.
The management of the University of Calabar, Cross River, South-South Nigeria, has appointed Dr Rose Ohiama Ugbe, as the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law.
Ugbe's appointment was made by the university’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Florence Banku Obi following the suspension of Prof. Cyril Ndifon, who was accused by the university's female law students of incessant sexual harassment.
The new acting dean was expected to resume on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, until the appointment of a substantive dean.
According to Cross River Watch, the management has also formed a committee to take charge of students’ mobilization to law school, review, and possibly recall those already sent to law school.
SaharaReporters had reported that a professor at the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, SinemAbasi Ekong, narrated how Prof. Ndifon allegedly raped her 20-year-old daughter in his office.
Prof. Ekong said Ndifon tore her daughter's answer script during a test and subsequently used that to trick her daughter to go to his office, where he allegedly raped her twice.
Prof. Ekong’s allegations came a few days after female students of the faculty of law at the University of Calabar demanded the immediate removal of Ndifon for allegedly sexually harassing them.
The protest was seen in a viral video on X, formerly known as Twitter which shows the moment the predominantly female students, clad in their traditional white and black attire, protested in the school.
The angry students are seen in the video displaying placards with inscriptions like, “We are tired of sucking big **”, “Professor Ndifon, let the girls with big breasts breathe. Stop suffocating us,” and “Enough of law school list manipulation.”