By Ben Efe
When it comes to women and sex, men will never learn their lessons. Many have been doomed, careers have been lost, marriages have been broken, children have been left confused who are their real fathers, yet like death that is never satisfied, the amatory and libidinous tendencies of man keep leading many to the hall of shame.
‘It’s human nature,’ Professor Cyril Ndifon would probably be screaming from whatever ‘dungeon’ he is been restrained by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), after his long reign of flipping his dick from one mouth to another in the the University of Calabar campus came to an end
The girls in the faculty of law had enough and they marched out in their numbers to call on UNICAL authorities to rein in the terrorist that is undressing them with his eyes and forcing them into performing all sorts immoral acts, otherwise they should marked themselves ‘failed’ in any examination he conducted for them.
The graphically lewd testimony of a witness at his trial before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja revealed the extent the Naughty Professor went in his escapade
“He pulled down his trousers. I told him to stop and that I was on my period (menstruation). He asked won’t I give him my virginity again.
“I said I was on my period. He put his hand inside my pad. He asked when my period would finish and asked me to sit down.
“He brought out his manhood and asked that I give him a blow job. I told him I can’t. He said I shouldn’t embarrass him.
“He put his manhood back inside his trousers and told me to leave his office.”
These are other people’s children sent to school to learn morals, equip themselves for the future, build good homes and raise good kids who would become good leaders. But here they are being chased and chewed up by sexual predators. Professors and lecturers who should be father figures to these girls, but they turned themselves into tin gods because they hold the power to admit, pass or fail students.
It is not only in the University of Calabar Law Faculty that this sex for marks malady is prevalent, it is widespread in all Nigerian institutions of higher learning. And it is not restricted to male lecturers coercing female students, female lecturers are also known to have forced male students to perform amorous acts with them.
The Nigerian educational system apart from being underfunded for research and development, is also morally bankrupt, little wonder the graduates being churned out from ivory towers have little regard for societal values, morales, and worst still majority of them are half bakes who cannot even decipher the course they read. They passed through the four falls buying their way through in cash or kind.
A female graduate of Federal Polytechnic Nekede Imo State, boasted some time ago that it was her ‘pussy’ that made her graduation possible. The school management was in overdrive to dispute her tiktok post. But it is the norm in the schools, where pursuit of sexual pleasure, lack of conscience and abuse of power have taken over the pursuit of academic excellence.
These are students who would later man sensitive positions in government and corporate organisations where they may also come face with sexual harassment in the work place. The vicious circle continues and no work is ever done.
Many young ladies have left school broken as they try to cope with diminished self confidence and compulsive thoughts of submitting their ‘tool’ before they could get a job or a contract from any one in the public and private service.
It is so reassuring that the government is not sweeping the case against Professor Ndifon under the carpet, if he is proven to be guilty of the charges against him, he should pay for his sins and perhaps that would send a message to others sexual predators in the universities and workplaces.
The case of the army corporal Ruth Ogunleye who accused her superiors of sexual harassment comes to mind. Though the army is tacitum in its investigation of the case, it is another aspect of Nigerian life that is worth looking into as there are too many cases of sexual indecency in the workplace.
Though this could be the least of government worries in face of the myriads of social and economic problems, it is part of the whole social malaise that needs to be tackled. There are laws against sexual harrasment in work places.
First in the Nigerian constitution, every citizen is guaranteed fundalmental human rights…sexual harassment is a violation of fundamental human rights and consequently a breach of the constitution of Nigeria.
There are also laws made by state legislatures and the federal legislature for the Federal Capital Territory, focusing on sexual harassment.
It remains to be seen if more cases of sexual harassment will come to national limelight. It doesn’t have to take a long period of terror by another Naughty Professor for victims to raise an alarm.
