Alumni of the University of Calabar,
UNICAL, Faculty of Law, all from the law
class of 1997 have, petitioned the Cross
River State Commissioner of Police and
demanded a thorough prosecution of the
suspended Dean, Faculty of Law, Professor
Cyril Ndifon who is accused of raping,
Sinemobong Ekong Nkang, a 20 year old,
400 level student, in his office.
In the petition dated, September 14, 2015

copied to:

1. The Solicitor General, Ministry of Justice, Cross River State

2. The director of Public prosecutions, Ministry of Justice, Cross River State

3. The Inspector General of Police, Louis Edet House, Abuja

4. Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 6 Headquarters, Calabar

5. Director General, Department of State Security, National Headquarters, Abuja

6. The Vice Chancellor, University of Calabar, Calabar

7. The permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja

8. The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Abuja

9. The National President, Nigerian Bar Association

10. The Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Calabar Branch, Calabar

11. The Chairman, Council of Legal Education, Abuja

12. The Director General, Nigerian Law school, Abuja

13. The Chairman, Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, Abuja

14. FIDA, Abuja


The petitioners are praying the police to
thoroughly, professionally and impartially
investigate the case of rape against
Professor Ndifon with a view to charging
him to court to answer for his evil.
According to the lawyers, the Professor’s
reputation as a skirt chaser, sexual
harasser and rapist is the stuff of legends.
Below is the full text of the petition to the
commissioner of police:

Dear Sir,

DEMAND FOR THE THOROUGH AND URGENT INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF PROF. OSIM CYRIL NDIFON OF THE FACULTY OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR FOR RAPE AND OTHER OFFENCES

INTRODUCTION
We are alumni of the Faculty of Law,
University of Calabar, Calabar. We are all
barristers and solicitors of the Supreme
Court of Nigeria and are spread throughout
Nigeria and well beyond. Professor Cyril
Osim Ndifon, the disgraced and suspended
Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of
Calabar, was one of our law lecturers.
He taught us the course Nigerian Legal
System sometime in the year 1999. We
heard with alarm the allegation that
Professor Cyril Osim Ndifon raped
Sinemobong Ekong Nkang, one of his
students, following her refusal of his
sexual overtures.
While we know that by section 36 (5) of
the Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria 1999 (as amended), a presumption
of innocence inures in favor of anyone
accused of having committed an offence,
we note with dismay that the allegation is
all too familiar and is an enduring theme
of the over two-decades-old academic
career of Prof. Ndifon.
Ndifon’s victims number in the hundreds, if
not thousands. Our own class, which is
approximately 200-strong, teems with
victims of his intimidation, sexual
harassment and sexual predation.


THE FACTS OF THE RAPE
Professor Cyril Osim Ndifon had scheduled
a test for his 400-level Law of Equity &
Trust class to be held on Saturday, August
29, 2015 in one of the halls of the Faculty
of Law. The test held as scheduled. Forty
minutes into a sixty-minute exercise, he
entered the hall and asked everyone to
hand in their answer booklets.
As invigilators moved from desk to desk
collecting scripts, those who were yet to
be reached tried feverishly to round up
their answers. Professor Ndifon walked up
to one of these students, a 20-year-old girl
whom he had been admiring for ages,
grabbed her script and tore it to shreds,
dumping the shreds on her desk.
The hapless and totally bewildered girl
gathered the shreds and stuffed them into
her bag. About half an hour later, she was
on her way out of the faculty building and
was bound for her hostel in the company
of friends when Prof. Ndifon drove in.
He had left shortly after the drama in the
examination hall. On seeing her, he asked
whether she still had her shredded answer
script. Yes, she answered. Prof. Ndifon
then asked her to gather them, get a fresh
foolscap sheet of paper and go up to his
office to copy out her original answers.
She went up to his office where she met
his secretary and two other persons. She
explained her mission and was allowed to
sit with them in the outer office to copy
out her answers. The Dean’s office is on
the first floor. Shortly thereafter, Prof.
Ndifon walked in.
He directed her to go to his private office
on the second floor so she could use the
table there. She had been writing with the
answer script placed on her thighs and had
been uncomfortable. She gratefully went to
his office on the floor above and settled
down to work.
About five minutes into her writing, Prof.
Ndifon walked in with his trademark
swagger. He had a glass of wine in his
hand. He took a sip of it and, without
swallowing it, asked a kiss of her. She
declined and continued with her writing. He
went out. About five minutes later, he
returned. This time, he locked the door and
removed the key from the lock.
To put the girl’s mind at ease, he told her
he wanted to work and could do without
distractions. He sat on his chair and
seemed to be working when he suddenly
stood up, walked up to the girl and
solicited for a kiss. Again, the girl turned
him down. He seemed to take her rejection
in his strides and told her to go on with
her writing. However, he remained
restless.
A few minutes later, he planted himself
before her and tried to force her to drink
his wine. When she again refused he
poured some of it into his mouth and tried
to force a wine-laden kiss on her. The girl
fought him off, causing some of the wine
to spill on the floor and on her clothes.
Determined to have some reward for his
exertions, he dragged her from her seat to
the settee a few metres away and told her
point blank that he wanted to have sex
with her. She told him that she would not
have sex with him. He tried to forcefully
UnCloth her. She screamed. With no one
answering her screams, he undressed
himself and fetched a condom from a shelf
in his office. He put it on and, pinning her
down, forced his manhood into her body,
inflicting a great physical and emotional
pain that was as brutal as it was
mindless.
While he continued to hurt her, there was a
knock at the door. The fellow knocked and
went away, the footfall receding. Prof.
Ndifon got off the body of his young
victim, wore his clothes and helped her
into her own clothes. He apologized
profusely, telling her that he did not know
what had come over him. He opened the
door and went out.
The girl looked round for her mobile phone
so that she could place an SOS call. It
was nowhere to be found. She went to the
door and tried the handle. It was locked. In
her traumatized state, she had not heard
him locking it. With nothing to do, she
imposed some composure on herself. She
had gone there to write her test. She had
to follow through as she was anxious not
to fail the course of no less a lecturer than
the Dean of the Faculty himself.
About thirty minutes later, her nightmare
turned the key in the lock and entered. He
was carrying a bottle of Guinness Stout
which he opened and began to drink out
of. He offered it to her but she declined.
He tried to force the bottle into her mouth.
Some of the drink entered her mouth
which she promptly spat onto the floor. He
took a swig of the bottle, dragged her
close and forced the drink from his mouth
into hers.
Yet again, she spat it out on the floor. He
flew into a rage and ordered her to
UnCloth at the count of three. His victim
had not eaten all day. Her ordeal lasted
from around 3 to 5pm. She was very
exhausted and told him as much. But Prof.
Ndifon was having none of it. He counted
to three. When his victim refused to obey
him, he dragged her to the settee and,
suing his knees to pinion her, ripped the
zipper on her trousers.
She was weak both from hunger and her
ordeal and, in tears, pleaded with him to
let her be. He was deaf to her entreaties.
He told her that she was so great an
actress that she could win an Oscar,
assuring her he had met many girls like
her in the past.
After more struggling, his weary victim
was momentarily free. She got down on
her knees and pleaded with him to let her
go. He simply pushed her down, wore a
condom and once again forced his
manhood into her body. When he saw that
she was at the point of losing
consciousness, he got off her body and
told her she could go.
He offered to drop her off in his car. But
she refused his offer. She got dressed and
was staggering down the stairs when he
caught up with her and asked her to carry
his bag to his car. She complied. Only one
of his staff was left. He assisted his boss
to lock up the Dean’s office after which
they drove off in Prof. Ndifon’s car.
By this time, all her friends and course
mates who had been waiting for her had
all left, except one who refused to leave.
According Sinemobong, the said friend saw
her ’’…in tears and rushed up to help me.
He asked what happened to me, but I
could not still put myself together to tell
him what happened. I asked him to help
dial my mother’s number in my phone, and
I narrated briefly what Ndifon did to me.
My friend, with the help of a Good
Samaritan drove me to the Police Station
where I made a written statement”.

THE ISSUES
1. It is against university regulations for a
lecturer to hold a test on a Saturday in a
programme that is full time. The law
programme is full time;
2. Assuming that the girl had been guilty
of examination malpractice as alleged by
Prof. Ndifon, tearing up her answer script
was not the proper course of action to
take as the university has a clear protocol
for dealing with examination malpractice
issues.
3. Assuming that the girl had been guilty
of examination malpractice, Prof. Ndifon
had no authority whatsoever to forgive her
as she broke University rules, not his
private rules. In asking her to re-copy the
answers on a fresh sheet, he therefore
acted ultra vires as a lecturer; and, in
covering up a wrongdoing, he fell foul of
University regulations. In fact, he broke
extant law;
4. There is no satisfactory explanation for
why Prof. Ndifon took the girl from his
office as a Dean where there were two or
three other people to his personal office as
a lecturer– where there was absolutely
nobody. The facts reveal that the girl had
been carefully chosen as a target;
5. Prof. Ndifon had previously claimed that
his sex with the girl was consensual.
Assuming but not conceding that girl
actually gave herself to him voluntarily,
such consent is invalid at law as a
presumption of undue influence inures
against Prof. Ndifon considering his
position as her course lecturer and also
the Dean of the Faculty of Law;
6. Professor Ndifon has not been accused
of anything that is not within his perverse
and perverted nature.

OTHER CRIMES
Prof. Cyril Osim Ndifon was a law
undergraduate of the University of Calabar
in the 1980’s. However, in his second or
third year, the University rusticated him for
cultism-related activities.
He went to the University of Ife (now
Obafemi Awolowo University) where he
later obtained his Bachelor of Law degree
(LLB) and the University of Jos for his
Master of Laws (LLM). We are dismayed
that the University of Calabar eventually
offered him a position as an academic
staff and thus gave him a platform which
he used to pursue his mischief for about
two decades now.
It is our opinion that based on the
character deficit which his rustication
typifies; the University should not have
employed him. There is thus no doubt in
our minds that by its negligence or
perhaps even outright refusal to carry out
a thorough background check on Prof. Cyril
Osim Ndifon, the University of Calabar
unleashed an absolute monster on the
hapless students of the University in
general and students of the Faculty of Law
in particular.
The University of Calabar therefore shares
direct blame in the unfortunate incident of
August 29, 2015. Prof. Cyril Osim Ndifon
attended the Nigerian Law School.
From our experience, we know that before
a law graduate is offered admission by the
School, he must fill out a form– which is
on oath. Part of the information that the
form seeks to elicit is whether the
applicant had ever been rusticated from
the university and whether he was or had
ever been a secret cultist.
An applicant who answers those questions
in the affirmative is invariably denied
admission. Considering that Prof. Cyril
Osim Ndifon was offered admission and
that he went on to pass out of the School,
it is clear that he lied on oath.
Prof. Cyril Osim Ndifon is also an
academic entrepreneur albeit in a negative
sense. He carries on a thriving money-for-
grades trade and habitually solicits for
money from students in exchange for
grades. In our time, one of his agents was
our classmate. He habitually failed
students who either refused to bow to his
extortionist scheme or yield to his rabid
sexual advances.


THE INTRIGUES
Prof. Ndifon is a powerful man. He is a
legal practitioner, a professor of law and a
Dean of the Faculty of Law. He also has a
huge sentimental capital. He is Cross River
State’s first (and, to the best of our
knowledge, only) Professor of Law.
People in the highest echelons of power in
the State and beyond are working hard to
help him escape justice. They argue that
Cross River State will be the loser if he
falls from his exalted position.
It does not matter to them that his sexual
rapacity knows no tribe or tongue. Prof.
Ndifon himself has never been guilty of
displaying any ethnic sentiments in his
selection of victims.
In fact, he has an eclectic taste: whether
Igbo or Efik, Ejagham or Ibibio, Yoruba or
Ijaw, Yakurr or Yala, everyone is fair game.
Besides, it is disingenuous for anyone to
suggest that Cross River State can be best
served by a serial rapist. No glory can
sprout from a foundation of shame and
infamy. He is not an asset to Cross River
State but rather a heavy liability.
Already, Prof. Ndifon and his proxies have
taken to social media, especially Facebook,
to plead his case. Firstly, they leaked the
identity of the victim by publishing her
name and picture; their aim is to
traumatize her further into perpetual
silence.
All previous press reports had withheld the
information as to the identity of the
victim. Secondly, they have tried to shape
the narrative in a way that casts the victim
as a morally loose person. But that cannot
stand. Even if a lady is a LovePeddler, it is no
less rape for any man to have sexual
intercourse with her without her consent.
Again, Prof. Cyril Osim Ndifon and his
sympathizers are piling tremendous
pressure on the girl to drop the case. They
have also subjected her to threats and
intimidation. In fact, her lawyers have
taken up the matter of an Army captain
who called the victim to threaten her.


OUR PRAYERS
On the strength of the foregoing, we
earnestly and respectfully urge on you the
following demands:
1. That you thoroughly, professionally and
impartially investigate the case of rape
against Prof. Ndifon with a view to
charging him to court to answer for his
evil. His reputation as a skirt chaser,
sexual harasser and rapist is the stuff of
legends. For about two decades, the randy
academic had blackmailed many female
students into hopping onto his infamous
table by threatening to frustrate their
graduation from the law programme unless
they had sex with him. The monster must
be quarantined before he does more
damage. The reign of impunity must stop.
2. That you liaise with the Nigerian Law
School to investigate Prof. Cyril Osim
Ndifon for perjury and to prosecute him for
same.
3. That you bind Prof. Cyril Osim Ndifon
over for good conduct to the end that no
harm will come to any of the signatories to
this petition. We urge you to ensure that
this matter is not compromised or even
compounded. As the police often remind
us, it is an offence to compound a felony.
Rape is not a matter for amicable
settlement.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
The Law Class of 1997, University of
Calabar.

Signatories:
1.Adamade, Odey Simon
2. Adula, Sampson Adula
3. Agi, Anne Uruegi
4. Ajara Michael Ayambem
5. Akpanke, Richard
6. Akunefo, Tony
7. Amadi, Perpetua
8. Aniefiok, Tom Sunday
9. Ariku, Tom
10. Attoe, Bassey
11. Damba, CC
12. Effiom, Nnanke
13. Ekeng, Edem
14. Ekpo, Philip
15. Elezuo, Eziaku
16. Eyo, Glory
17. Ibia, Bassey
18. Igboanugo, Winifred
19. Inaku, John
20. Martins, Gloria
21. Mbu-Ogar, Chris Njar
22. Nsidibe, Brooks.
23. Ntui, Panam
24. Nuesiri, Daniel
25. Nwosu, Philip
26. Ofoha, John-Bede
27. Ondale, Innocent Ondale
28. Sokolo, Solomon
29. Ulaeto, Nelson
30. Unoh, Emenobazi Usetu
31. Urubulam, Daniel Iyo


Cc: Lalasticlala, Seun. Please let's all help this little girl get justice. This matter must not be swept under the carpet.

Good

I

Please dorofresh, I need to get a word with you asap with regards to this post. It's important and urgent. Hit me back