Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma, has been unraveled as being notorious
for sex-for-grade scandals, and right now the institution is said to be on fire
over the alleged brazen sexual harassment of one Miss Joy Osa Edobor, a student
of Political Science who was kept in the institution for upward of 12 years in
a course of study that normally would run for four years.
A check at the university by Citizens revealed that sexual
harassment is a tradition in the university where students are forced to cough
out between N4,000/N5,000 to pass each course or made themselves available for
sexual gratification with the lecturers. In addition, students are forced to
pay between N20,000/N150,000 for projects, depending on the department.
These perverse culture of extortion of the students have
been going on with official in deference until Miss Joy Edobor took a step of courage
by protesting the humiliating treatments handed out to her by those who are
supposed help in moulding her future.
The father of Miss Joy Edobor, Mr Edobor, out of frustration
petitioned the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences
Commission, ICPC on the fate of his daughter in the hands of insensitive
officials of Ambrose Alli University.
In his petition, he stated how the outing going Vice Chancellor,
Prof. Cordelia Agbebaku and her spouse, Prof. Phillip Enahoro Agbebaku
frustrated efforts made by the department and faculty to graduate his daughter.
It was said that the
Vice Chancellor shamefully blocked all efforts at graduating Miss Joy Edobor in
order to protect her sexually perverse husband, Prof Phillip Agbebaku who held
on to Miss Joy’s results as a former Head of Department, (HOD) and Prof of
Political Science. Miss Joy had alleged that her refusal to enter into an
amorous relationship with Prof. Agbebaku made him to visit her with reprisals;
such as failing her, declaring her results missing and with constant verbal assaults.
When Mr Edobor and his daughter realised the futility of
getting justice in Ambrose Alli University, they turned to ICPC for succour. Having
received the pathetic and heart rendering petition of Miss Joy Edobor, the ICPC
commenced investigation amidst bureaucratic delays and foot dragging. The
Commission, eventually came out with a report that Prof Agbebaku will soon be
prosecuted along with his co-travellers in the university.
Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Pratices and other
related offences Commission (ICPC), Mr Ekpo Nta, why addressing a Senate Committee
revealed a few days ago that the commission had rescued a female undergraduate
of the Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma, who had spent 12 years on the campus for
refusing sexual advances. The ICPC hinted that the individuals involved will be
prosecuted soon.
"Right now, ICPC is working on prosecuting all the lecturers
and officials involved in the stupid act. The commission had focused its torchlight
on the universities, where it has closed down over 26 illegal degree-awarding
institutions and rescued a number of students being victimised", he said.
The ICPC boss, who stated this while appearing before the
Senator Victor Lar-led Committee on the Commission said that 50 out of the 156 major
contractors to the Ministry of Works had been discovered to have submitted
forged tax certificates.
A further investigation revealed that the Department of
Political Science had been set alight twice in the bid to destroy material evidence.
The first inferno was alleged to have be masterminded by lecturer who, as an
examination officer, wanted to cover up his misdeed. The department was torched
a second time in May 2014 after a meeting where members of the department were
informed of an impending visit of officials from the ICPC to the department.
Many who read or heard about the ICPC Chairman’s
enthusiastic comments on the prosecution of Prof. Agbebaku and other involved in
the criminal desecration of the citadel of learning are worried that the Commission
may just be grandstanding, after all. In the past, similar cases involving high
placed individuals have been swept under the carpets.
The Governing Council of the university, chaired by Prof.
Gregory Akenzua appears to be lethargic over these embarrassing developments. The
seemingly indifferent disposition of the Governing Council of the university is
a source of concern to members of the university community and worried public.
There is palpable apprehension in the university whether the
Governing Council can rise up to the occasion by disciplining the lecturers, including
the out going Vice Chancellor and her husband for their alleged acts, which
have severely damaged the reputation of the institution in the sense that this
is about the first time a sitting Vice Chancellor would be an accessory to a
heinous academic crime.
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