An investigator from the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Lucy Ogechi, said a forensic analysis of the phone belonging to the suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Cyril Ndifon, revealed that he had several nude pictures from various contacts.
The professor and his lawyer, Sunny Anyanwu, are currently standing trial on amended four charges bordering on alleged sexual harassment and an attempt to perverse the cause of justice.
At the resumed trial on Wednesday, Ogechi, who was led in evidence by the counsel for the prosecution, Osuobeni Akponimisingha, also claimed that a diploma student (name withheld based on the order of the court to protect the victim) of the university sent pornographic photographs of herself to him through his mobile telephone at different times.
Ogechi said, “We saw so many nude photos of so many contacts, including the contact of TKJ. TKJ was of particular interest because we observed that nude pictures were requested by the first defendant as currency for admission to TKJ for the diploma class transitioning to the LLB class. We sought to confront the first defendant with our findings, and he refused to give his statement.
“We left him and decided to go on a fact-finding mission to Calabar where we interacted with a student with the aid of a lecturer who identified him for the team.”
She added that the second defendant, a lawyer, called the victim’s witness to shun the ICPC’s invitation.
Ogechi added, “The victim’s witness told us that she received a strange call from a lawyer and friend of the first defendant who told her not to honour the invitation of the ICPC. We confronted him, and he denied it.
“He also made a statement denying he called the victim’s witness. A forensic report on the call and other information from the network provider showed the contrary. He actually called the victim’s witness.
“Being a suspect in the matter, we retrieved his phone from him. He signed a consent form for the retrieval of his phone. The forensic unit and response from the service provider revealed that the second defendant’s call to our witness, known as TKJ, was for 679 seconds. It also revealed that the TKJ’s number was forwarded by the first defendant to the second defendant.”
