Prof Mrs Patricia Etuna Mbah, an internationally certified (IPHE) Home Economist has decried sexual harassment and stoppage of her salary by Prof. Francis Otunta the vice chancellor of Michael Okpara University Umudike.

Narrating her ordeal, Prof Mbah said that the vice chancellor stopped her salary since April 2019 because she refused to yield to his sexual advances and had made good his threats of making her stay in the University hell if she continues to reject his advances by stopping her salaries.

The professor of home economics stated that it all started shortly after Prof. Francis O. Otunta was made the Vice Chancellor, having served as one of the panelist that interviewed and certified him as being qualified. Upon assumption of office, Prof. Otunta proposed my name as the Deputy Vice Chancellor and when that could not workout he approached me and requested that we became lovers, a request I politely turned down and told him that I am a married woman, a grandmother and devoted Christian.

I had expected a man of that status to respect my decision having politely rejected his amorous advances, but he had gone ahead to intimidate, harass and afflict me with all manners of wickedness and at various times had tried to force me into sleeping with him.
In one occasion Prof. Otunta invited me to his office pulled down his trousers and tried to force himself on me right inside the office, I resisted and push him down, opened the door and ran away.

A similar incident also happened when I came back from the hospital after my treatment and discovered that my salary had been stopped despite obtaining all the necessary approvals from my HOD and other relevant authorities with documentary evidence to be away on medical vacation. when I came back I was told that the VC had ordered that my salary should be stopped, I went to his office to find out why, he delayed me from 10 am till about 5:30pm in the evening and when everybody had left, he proceeded to make sexual moves towards me right inside his office and I had to ask him if he was human to have contemplated having sex with a woman in my medical condition. He said he doesn’t care that all he wants is to have me and that he must achieve it or I should be ready to receive more punishment from him. With tears in my eyes I turned the door keys open and ran out of his office, He had also invited me to different hotels which I turned down. On one of the occasions I had to go with my husband and on seeing my husband he was visibly angry.

He had at various times threatened my life, a case in point was when his orderly Mr. Progress Ibor, made telephone calls to me warning me of immediate danger and likely death, if I do not leave the University. I had to report to the former commissioner of police Abia State, Mr. Adeleye Oyebade who investigated the matter and made him sign an undertaking that should anything happen to me he will be held responsible
Since then Prof. Otunta had gone ahead to live up to his promise of making life miserable for me in the university. Beyond stopping my salaries, he had also gone ahead to remove me as Head of Department, forced me to resign as chairman of exams and time table committee. As if that was not enough he went ahead to demote me from being a Professor to an Associate Professor, all these for the simple reason that I refused to yield to his sexual advances.

All my efforts to make the university council to resolve my issue with Prof. Otunta failed, I have also petitioned the honourable minister of Education Hon. Emeka Nwajiuba who looked into the matter and ordered Prof. Otunta to pay my salaries only for him to also decline and rather chose to pay me half of my due entitlement against the ministers directive.

When the News Gazette Online contacted Prof. Francis Otunta the Vice Chancellor of Michael Okpara University over the allegations of Sexual Harassment and illegal seizure of salaries, he denied that nothing of that nature happened between him and Prof. Patricia Mbah and gave no reasons why her salaries are being withheld or was unable to defend why Prof. Mbah is being punished.

However a member of the governing council of the school who spoke to The News Gazette Online on condition of anonymity informed us that the V.C had compromised the council chairman Rt. Hon. Lawal Zayyana Muhammed and the council can no longer caution or even correct the Vice Chancellors wrong policies or actions. He lamented that Prof. Otunta is now running the school as a “Sole Administrator” and had ran the school down, he stated that it is unfortunate that he has bought over the conscience of the chairman of the governing board of the school and that was why the board cannot call Prof. Otunta to order on the matter of sexual harassment and seizure of salaries against Prof. Mbah.

He also revealed that there are several other complaints of sexual harassment,intimidation and seizure of salaries against some female staff of the university by Prof. Otunta which had been reported to the university council but the board chairman having been so heavily compromised had refused to allow them treat the matter with the seriousness it deserves.

Who wan rape ugly woman like u?

An ugly man.

ghettokid1:
Who wan rape ugly woman like u?

Do you see that you have allowed hard times to becloud your sense of reasoning. That is if you have one, at all.

You fools should leave that man alone to do his work ,Prof Mrs Patricia Etuna Mbah stop fucking around

By the time they Kidnap him and torture his kokoro he would know how not to harass a woman ......

The woman should petition the National Assembly and copy the EFCC, DSS, IGP and ICPC

Audio rape, another defamation of character theatrics

The authorities concerned should investigate this matter...

Madam please try to post evidence on social media and let the matter be reported to the appropriate authorities or you can involve DSS.

No professor with rightly claim to profess her research abilities can be demoted after due process.

Also, the VC doesn't have all the powers to carry out all he has been aledged as that is my hoe universities are structured to operate.

No professor can be treated like that in a university system. Madam "he wants to rape me" isn't likely telling us the whole story.

Thus everything here is character assassination

And they were all against IPPIS.

Evil people! All these cold room professors
The level of harassment women face at workplace is unbelievable! Some decide to keep quiet so as to avoid the stigma that comes with it.

Madam professor should have set the man up... and arrange for some nice beating for him, he go pay pass your salary for you ...

#RubhishPokers

any evidence

We’ve all lost it.

ghettokid1:
Who wan rape ugly woman like u?

Eddygourdo:
No professor with rightly claim to profess her research abilities can be demoted after due process.

Also, the VC doesn't have all the powers to carry out all he has been aledged as that is my hoe universities are structured to operate.

No professor can be treated like that in a university system. Madam "he wants to rape me" isn't likely telling us the whole story.

Thus everything here is character assassination

EVERYTHING HERE IS CHARACTER ASSASSINATION RIGHT?

I CAN SEE YOU ARE A SERIAL RAPIST OR YOUR FAMILY HAS A HISTORY OF RAPING AND ABUSING WOMEN. IF NOT, I EXPECT YOU TO CONDEMN THIS IMMORAL ACT FIRST AND THEN CALL ON THE AUTHORITIES TO INVESTIGATE AND IF THE MAN IS GUILTY AS ALLEGED, HE SHOULD BE PUNISHED. DIDN'T YOU READ WHERE SHE HONOURED ONE OF HIS NUMEROUS INVITATIONS WITH HER HUSBAND AND THE PROFRAPIST GOT FURIOUS?

BROTHER YOU ARE MAD!


IRRESPONSIBLE ADULTS ROAMING THE STREETS ON PANTS AND SLEEVES.


I HAVE DAUGHTERS AND ANY MAN THAT DARE HARASS THEM SEXUALLY, I WILL KILL HIM THAT DAY. THAT DAY I SWEAR HE WILL BREATHE HIS LAST.

I HAVE A GUN SO NO NEED TO THINK IT TWICE. ONCE I OPEN HIS DOOR, I GUN HIM DOWN!


LET ME BE THE FIRST FATHER TO EXTRAJUDICIALLY EXECUTE A RAPIST.

YOU DON'T RAPE WOMEN! BUT IF YOU MUST RAPE STAY AWAY FROM MY JURISDICTION OR ELSE, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS YOUR REWARD.

SINCE THE GOVERNMENT HAS TURNED A BLIND EYE ON RAPIST BUT THEY ARE PROPOSING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR HATE SPEECHES.

THEN PEOPLE LIKE ME WILL TAKE THE LAWS IN THEIR HANDS. IF I MAY ASK, WHAT HAS THE GOVERNMENT DONE FOR ME?

I RUN MY BUSINESSES ON MY OWN, I PAY FOR MY SECURITY, I GENERATE MY OWN ELECTRICITY, I PAY FOR MY HEALTHCARE, I SAVE WITHOUT INTEREST PAID INTO MY ACCOUNT, MY CHILDREN SCHOOL ABROAD AT MY OWN EXPENSE, I HAVE NO ACCESS TO MORTGAGES AND LOANS. SO WHAT!

I BROUGHT IN AN EXPERT FROM THE US LAST MONTH AND I HAD TO PAY FOR BULLETPROOF SUV'S AT TRANSCORP HILTON AND HIRE POLICE ESCORTS AT THE FORCE HEADQUATERS. ALL THESE AT MY OWN EXPENSE. SO WHO THE HELL IS THE GOVERNMENT?


DAMN!!!!!!

Nukilia:
Evil people! All these cold room professors
The level of harassment women face at workplace is unbelievable! Some decide to keep quiet so as to avoid the stigma that comes with it.

Madam professor should have set the man up... and arrange for some nice beating for him, he go pay pass your salary for you ...

#RubhishPokers

He would definitely still receive that beating ,let the appropriate authority not remove him from that post and investigate the matter....

KingSatan:


EVERYTHING HERE IS CHARACTER ASSASSINATION RIGHT?

I CAN SEE YOU ARE A SERIAL RAPIST OR YOUR FAMILY HAS A HISTORY OF RAPING AND ABUSING WOMEN. IF NOT, I EXPECT YOU TO CONDEMN THIS IMMORAL ACT FIRST AND THEN CALL ON THE AUTHORITIES TO INVESTIGATE AND IF THE MAN IS GUILTY AS ALLEGED, HE SHOULD BE PUNISHED. DIDN'T YOU READ WHERE SHE HONOURED ONE OF HIS NUMEROUS INVITATIONS WITH HER HUSBAND AND THE PROFRAPIST GOT FURIOUS?

BROTHER YOU ARE MAD!


IRRESPONSIBLE ADULTS ROAMING THE STREETS ON PANTS AND SLEEVES.


I HAVE DAUGHTERS AND ANY MAN THAT DARE HARASS THEM SEXUALLY, I WILL KILL HIM THAT DAY. THAT DAY I SWEAR HE WILL BREATHE HIS LAST.

I HAVE A GUN SO NO NEED TO THINK IT TWICE. ONCE I OPEN HIS DOOR, I GUN HIM DOWN!


LET ME BE THE FIRST FATHER TO EXTRAJUDICIALLY EXECUTE A RAPIST.

YOU DON'T RAPE WOMEN! BUT IF YOU MUST RAPE STAY AWAY FROM MY JURISDICTION OR ELSE, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS YOUR REWARD.

SINCE THE GOVERNMENT HAS TURNED A BLIND EYE ON RAPIST BUT THEY ARE PROPOSING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR HATE SPEECHES.

THEN PEOPLE LIKE ME WILL TAKE THE LAWS IN THEIR HANDS. IF I MAY ASK, WHAT HAS THE GOVERNMENT DONE FOR ME?

I RUN MY BUSINESSES ON MY OWN, I PAY FOR MY SECURITY, I GENERATE MY OWN ELECTRICITY, I PAY FOR MY HEALTHCARE, I SAVE WITHOUT INTEREST PAID INTO MY ACCOUNT, MY CHILDREN SCHOOL ABROAD AT MY OWN EXPENSE, I HAVE NO ACCESS TO MORTGAGES AND LOANS. SO WHAT!

I BROUGHT IN AN EXPERT FROM THE US LAST MONTH AND I HAD TO PAY FOR BULLETPROOF SUV'S AT TRANSCORP HILTON AND HIRE POLICE ESCORTS AT THE FORCE HEADQUATERS. ALL THESE AT MY OWN EXPENSE. SO WHO THE HELL IS THE GOVERNMENT?


DAMN!!!!!!

Chief calm down as you don't just swallow every allegation line, hook and sinker, lest, you run into troubles. Desperation has led a lot of people into doing the unthinkable and character defamation is just one of the minutest some can do.

Firstly, this news has not even been verified yet and you are already calling for Prof Otunta's head. While I agree with you that the act should be condemned (if there's an iota of truth), I was also expecting you to call for prosecution of the said woman and publisher if it's investigated and found to be false. And I wonder what impression you would have if the woman denies both the post and knowledge of the content.

Now going back to the post (which I feel might have been a sponsored one). Take them paragraph by paragraph and you will discover that this is a very weighty one as names have been mentioned and expect authorities to carry out investigation especially if it gets to either the accused himself or someone close to him. The much I know about the man, he is very principled and accepts nothing short of standards.

He had at various times threatened my life, a case in point was when his orderly Mr. Progress Ibor, made telephone calls to me warning me of immediate danger and likely death, if I do not leave the University. I had to report to the former commissioner of police Abia State, Mr. Adeleye Oyebade who investigated the matter and made him sign an undertaking that should anything happen to me he will be held responsible

This is weighty and the undertaken has to be produced!

All my efforts to make the university council to resolve my issue with Prof. Otunta failed, I have also petitioned the honourable minister of Education Hon. Emeka Nwajiuba who looked into the matter and ordered Prof. Otunta to pay my salaries only for him to also decline and rather chose to pay me half of my due entitlement against the ministers directive.

This too

He also revealed that there are several other complaints of sexual harassment,intimidation and seizure of salaries against some female staff of the university by Prof. Otunta which had been reported to the university council but the board chairman having been so heavily compromised had refused to allow them treat the matter with the seriousness it deserves.

And this

You know what; when I read stories here about demotion of 24 professors in the school and another; informing staff of the said school to regularize their appointments or get sacked, I wasn't moved cos I know what he stands for! At least, he did the later in Akanu Ibiam.

ghettokid1:
Who wan rape ugly woman like u?

The small sense you have u have use it to iron shirt mtchewww


Inside life

why will a VC want to rape this old woman... chai men don suffer gidi gan



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KingSatan:


EVERYTHING HERE IS CHARACTER ASSASSINATION RIGHT?

I CAN SEE YOU ARE A SERIAL RAPIST OR YOUR FAMILY HAS A HISTORY OF RAPING AND ABUSING WOMEN. IF NOT, I EXPECT YOU TO CONDEMN THIS IMMORAL ACT FIRST AND THEN CALL ON THE AUTHORITIES TO INVESTIGATE AND IF THE MAN IS GUILTY AS ALLEGED, HE SHOULD BE PUNISHED. DIDN'T YOU READ WHERE SHE HONOURED ONE OF HIS NUMEROUS INVITATIONS WITH HER HUSBAND AND THE PROFRAPIST GOT FURIOUS?

BROTHER YOU ARE MAD!


IRRESPONSIBLE ADULTS ROAMING THE STREETS ON PANTS AND SLEEVES.


I HAVE DAUGHTERS AND ANY MAN THAT DARE HARASS THEM SEXUALLY, I WILL KILL HIM THAT DAY. THAT DAY I SWEAR HE WILL BREATHE HIS LAST.

I HAVE A GUN SO NO NEED TO THINK IT TWICE. ONCE I OPEN HIS DOOR, I GUN HIM DOWN!


LET ME BE THE FIRST FATHER TO EXTRAJUDICIALLY EXECUTE A RAPIST.

YOU DON'T RAPE WOMEN! BUT IF YOU MUST RAPE STAY AWAY FROM MY JURISDICTION OR ELSE, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS YOUR REWARD.

SINCE THE GOVERNMENT HAS TURNED A BLIND EYE ON RAPIST BUT THEY ARE PROPOSING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR HATE SPEECHES.

THEN PEOPLE LIKE ME WILL TAKE THE LAWS IN THEIR HANDS. IF I MAY ASK, WHAT HAS THE GOVERNMENT DONE FOR ME?

I RUN MY BUSINESSES ON MY OWN, I PAY FOR MY SECURITY, I GENERATE MY OWN ELECTRICITY, I PAY FOR MY HEALTHCARE, I SAVE WITHOUT INTEREST PAID INTO MY ACCOUNT, MY CHILDREN SCHOOL ABROAD AT MY OWN EXPENSE, I HAVE NO ACCESS TO MORTGAGES AND LOANS. SO WHAT!

I BROUGHT IN AN EXPERT FROM THE US LAST MONTH AND I HAD TO PAY FOR BULLETPROOF SUV'S AT TRANSCORP HILTON AND HIRE POLICE ESCORTS AT THE FORCE HEADQUATERS. ALL THESE AT MY OWN EXPENSE. SO WHO THE HELL IS THE GOVERNMENT?


DAMN!!!!!!

Mr Man. You are a slowpoke. Period.

atiku4President:

Do you see that you have allowed hard times to becloud your sense of reasoning. That is if you have one, at all.

says an atiku supporter

oga odds are low that a VC of a school with thousands of young pretty ladies would wanna rape an old not attractive woman face fact and leave sentiments

The only truth here is that u went on medical leave without due approval and your salary stopped n u are blackmailing a VC. What will a VC be doing with a borehole when there are fresh undergraduate girls all over campus

ManuelMount:




The small sense you have u have use it to iron shirt mtchewww


Inside life

typical woman wrapper, every allegation of a woman is true to them and all men are culpable... continue soon you would be accused

This is cheap black mail. this woman is really bad.

The VC must be a mad dog clothed in human garment for demanding sex from a fellow Prof cum married woman and a grandmother when there are millions of prettier young girls with sexual prowess in the University environment and Pax Nigeriana in caboodle. In fact, when investigated, one will find out that Prof Otunta is an occultist looking for whom to destroy. I commend Prof Patricia for not been pusillanimous considering the weight of a VC as perceived by mere mortals. Comr CHARLES SAMANKWE

KingSatan:


EVERYTHING HERE IS CHARACTER ASSASSINATION RIGHT?

I CAN SEE YOU ARE A SERIAL RAPIST OR YOUR FAMILY HAS A HISTORY OF RAPING AND ABUSING WOMEN. IF NOT, I EXPECT YOU TO CONDEMN THIS IMMORAL ACT FIRST AND THEN CALL ON THE AUTHORITIES TO INVESTIGATE AND IF THE MAN IS GUILTY AS ALLEGED, HE SHOULD BE PUNISHED. DIDN'T YOU READ WHERE SHE HONOURED ONE OF HIS NUMEROUS INVITATIONS WITH HER HUSBAND AND THE PROFRAPIST GOT FURIOUS?

BROTHER YOU ARE MAD!


IRRESPONSIBLE ADULTS ROAMING THE STREETS ON PANTS AND SLEEVES.


I HAVE DAUGHTERS AND ANY MAN THAT DARE HARASS THEM SEXUALLY, I WILL KILL HIM THAT DAY. THAT DAY I SWEAR HE WILL BREATHE HIS LAST.

I HAVE A GUN SO NO NEED TO THINK IT TWICE. ONCE I OPEN HIS DOOR, I GUN HIM DOWN!


LET ME BE THE FIRST FATHER TO EXTRAJUDICIALLY EXECUTE A RAPIST.

YOU DON'T RAPE WOMEN! BUT IF YOU MUST RAPE STAY AWAY FROM MY JURISDICTION OR ELSE, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS YOUR REWARD.

SINCE THE GOVERNMENT HAS TURNED A BLIND EYE ON RAPIST BUT THEY ARE PROPOSING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR HATE SPEECHES.

THEN PEOPLE LIKE ME WILL TAKE THE LAWS IN THEIR HANDS. IF I MAY ASK, WHAT HAS THE GOVERNMENT DONE FOR ME?

I RUN MY BUSINESSES ON MY OWN, I PAY FOR MY SECURITY, I GENERATE MY OWN ELECTRICITY, I PAY FOR MY HEALTHCARE, I SAVE WITHOUT INTEREST PAID INTO MY ACCOUNT, MY CHILDREN SCHOOL ABROAD AT MY OWN EXPENSE, I HAVE NO ACCESS TO MORTGAGES AND LOANS. SO WHAT!

I BROUGHT IN AN EXPERT FROM THE US LAST MONTH AND I HAD TO PAY FOR BULLETPROOF SUV'S AT TRANSCORP HILTON AND HIRE POLICE ESCORTS AT THE FORCE HEADQUATERS. ALL THESE AT MY OWN EXPENSE. SO WHO THE HELL IS THE GOVERNMENT?


DAMN!!!!!!

Mr caps lock you are a small boy, you can't kill anybody this pussy ass nigger. Who is ranting to his betters.

I won't even talk with you. You are too small.

Bye.

Eddygourdo:
Mr caps lock you are a small boy, you can't kill anybody this pussy ass nigger. Who is ranting to his betters.

I won't even talk with you. You are too small.

Bye.

You have replied and your response have sold you out.


Fvcking Rapist.

For justifying rape you deserve to die a painful death..

I wish I can get you and strangle life out of you and your kind.