Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja, has directed for Prof. Cyril Ndifon, a suspended Dean of Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar –UNICAL, to be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre, until the expiration of his bail application.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission –ICPC had prosecuted Ndifon in court on four counts over reported sexual misconduct against the several students in his class.
In a statement issued by the spokesperson for the anti-graft agency, Azuka Ogugua, the ICPC revealed that the don pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to him.
Okon Efut, the Counsel to the defendant had pleaded for the defendant to be granted bail as the application for that had been filed on his behalf on January 2nd 2024.
The statement additionally stated that the counsel for the ICPC had not been in support of the bail application on the ground that one of the lawyers representing the defendant, Sunny Anyanwu, had repeatedly threatened one of the star witnesses ICPC presented for the trial.
In his defence, Anyanwu, who had previously argued that the name of the said witness was not highlighted in the charges read, eventually told the court that it was the ‘witness’ that called him.
Justice Omotosho had however, directed Anyanwu to file his affidavit of fact within 48 hours over the threat allegation that ICPC witness leveled against him.
He also ruled that the defendant (Mr Ndifon), be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre until Wednesday, January 10, 2024 when the hearing on his bail application would be finalised.
