Department of State Services (DSS has detained the former dean of the University of Calabar’s faculty of law, Prof. Cyril Ndifon,) agents for allegedly harassing female law students.
IWitnesslive had earlier reported that there were many demonstrations against the university don in the building. The university’s administration later suspended the don, and an investigation into the claims was launched right away.
Ndifon had defended himself, saying that some faculty members who had vowed to bring him down were behind the protests by the law students. He called the accusations outright lies intended to harm his reputation.
Giving an update on the development in Abuja on Thursday, the DSS spokesman, Peter Afunanya, confirmed that operatives of the service arrested the don and took him into custody after he refused to honour several invitations extended to him.
Afunanya told journalists that the action was taken after the ICPC sought the secret police’s intervention as well as in the spirit of inter-agency collaboration, adding that Ndifon’s arrest was effected after a court order granting it permission.
The spokesperson of the ICPC, Azuka Ogugua could not be reached for comments at the time of filing this report as calls to her phone did not connect.
