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UNICAL suspends four students over ‘water ritual’.

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Banku Obi, has suspended  four students of the institution identified in a viral video as a perpatrator of an  unlawful act of water ritual on a fellow female student.

The announcement was disclosed in a statement that was signed and released on Saturday Registrar  university of Calabar, Gabriel Egbe.

From the information in the statement, Mr Egbe said that the

unlawful act was carried out by the four students during the last

matriculation ceremony of the institution held for the 2021/2022

freshers of the institution on December 2, 2022.

Mr Egbe mentioned the affected students to include Stephen Usen, an Accounting Department year four student, and Aniefiok Idorenyin, a year two student of Computer Science.

 

Others are Miracle Adeyemi, a year two student of Political Science, and Blessing Queen, a year four student of Genetics and Biotechnology.

“Management deliberated extensively on the report of the

committee on Gender-Based Violence and the strength of its

findings and has accordingly directed the affected students to

proceed on suspension with effect from the 2020/2021 academic session.

“Deans, Heads of Departments and other relevant officers of the

university have been tasked with the duty of full compliance with

the given directive,” Mr Egbe said.