The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, declined to hear the bail applications filed by Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, and his co-defendant, Sunny Anyanwu. They are remanded in detention over allegations of sexual harassment against Mr Ndifon, who is a professor. The trial judge, James Omotosho, held that the bail applications of the duo would be taken after the testimony of the star witness, identified as TKJ.
The judge said the decision was taken to protect the witness. Defence counsel, Joe Agi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), had pleaded with the court that the bail applications of his clients be taken shortly after Lucy-Ogechi Chima, an investigator with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), finished testifying as a prosecution witness and was discharged from the witness box. But responding, the judge, Mr Omotosho, said, “I must take the statement of the victim witness first before considering bail for the defendants so that there won’t be interferenc