The outgoing Vice Chancellor of theUniversity of Uyo,Comfort Ekpo, has asked the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to suspend the inauguration of Enefiok Essien as the new vice chancellor of the university over his indictment by the Court of Appeal for sexual assault.
According to report by PremiumTimes, 55-year-old Mr. Essien, professor of commercial law and current dean, Faculty of Law, University of Uyo, was billed to succeed Mrs Ekpo as Vice Chancellor on the 1st December.
Mrs. Ekpo, however, has expressed her worry in a letter to the minister which was dated November 17, 2015. In it, she informed Mr. Adamu about the “uneasy calm, tension and anxiety pervading the entire university community” because of Mr. Enefiok Essien’s nomination as the next vice chancellor of the institution.
In her letter to the minister, Mrs. Ekpo said, "The situation is consequent upon the widely publicized alleged fractured integrity of the Vice Chancellor-designate, Prof. Enefiok E. Essien."
“I most respectfully submit that the inauguration of the new vice chancellor slated for December 1, 2015 temporarily be suspended to provide a window for any reasonable grievances to be looked into by your ministry and council as may be deemed appropriate.”
She added that relevant provisions in the law could be invoked in the interim for smooth academic and administrative activities in the university.
Mr. Essien was indicted in 2005 by the Court of Appeal, Calabar, over a sexual assault case which took place in 1995.
Essien, then a senior lecturer, was accused by a student, Linda Onyebuchi Essell, of sexual assalt.
Essell, who was expelled from the UNIUYO in 1997 for Examination Malpractice, alleged that Essien framed her because she refused to have an intimate relationship with him.
In her affidavit before the Federal High Court, Calabar, Essel said, “Sometimes in April, 1995 around 1pm, Essien, after our lectures on Contract of which he was the lecturer, summoned me to his office. He told me that I had the last opportunity to redeem my career which was billed for a doom by expulsion if only I could accede to his simple love overtures which will take nothing from me."
It has been reported that by the time the petition came to reconsider Essien as prospective VC, it was too late to make the required changed.
According to report by PremiumTimes, 55-year-old Mr. Essien, professor of commercial law and current dean, Faculty of Law, University of Uyo, was billed to succeed Mrs Ekpo as Vice Chancellor on the 1st December.
Mrs. Ekpo, however, has expressed her worry in a letter to the minister which was dated November 17, 2015. In it, she informed Mr. Adamu about the “uneasy calm, tension and anxiety pervading the entire university community” because of Mr. Enefiok Essien’s nomination as the next vice chancellor of the institution.
In her letter to the minister, Mrs. Ekpo said, "The situation is consequent upon the widely publicized alleged fractured integrity of the Vice Chancellor-designate, Prof. Enefiok E. Essien."
“I most respectfully submit that the inauguration of the new vice chancellor slated for December 1, 2015 temporarily be suspended to provide a window for any reasonable grievances to be looked into by your ministry and council as may be deemed appropriate.”
She added that relevant provisions in the law could be invoked in the interim for smooth academic and administrative activities in the university.
Mr. Essien was indicted in 2005 by the Court of Appeal, Calabar, over a sexual assault case which took place in 1995.
Essien, then a senior lecturer, was accused by a student, Linda Onyebuchi Essell, of sexual assalt.
Essell, who was expelled from the UNIUYO in 1997 for Examination Malpractice, alleged that Essien framed her because she refused to have an intimate relationship with him.
In her affidavit before the Federal High Court, Calabar, Essel said, “Sometimes in April, 1995 around 1pm, Essien, after our lectures on Contract of which he was the lecturer, summoned me to his office. He told me that I had the last opportunity to redeem my career which was billed for a doom by expulsion if only I could accede to his simple love overtures which will take nothing from me."
It has been reported that by the time the petition came to reconsider Essien as prospective VC, it was too late to make the required changed.
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