How Rivers University Lecturers Pinned Down Student, Cut Her Hair

Details of how Rivers State University, Port Harcourt lecturers, pinned down and forcibly trimmed an undergraduate’s hair, is making the rounds.

A video on the incident has already gone viral, attracting divergent viewpoints, The Eagle reports

The two lectueres, a female identified as Blessing Timothy and her male counterpart, Melford Itari reportedly carried out the act on Thursday at the university’s Faculty of Law.

Video sighted by reporters allegedly showed the duo forcibly trying to cut the hair of the female student, identified simply as Princess Amadi.

The male lecturer was holding her down while the female lecturer was using scissors on her, a Punch report on the incident asserted.

How Rivers University Lecturers Pinned Down Student, Cut Her Hair

Amadi was quoted as telling the newspaper: “It happened on Thursday at 11 am.  They were going round for sensitisation on dress code. I was leaving my class and she (Timothy) called me to where she was. She started asking me: ‘What’s wrong with your dressing?’ ‘My bag?’ I replied. ‘Your bag is not my issue,’ she answered. ‘I asked her, what?’ ‘Are you asking me?’ She replied, turning to ask her colleague, ‘tell this girl what is wrong with her dressing. ‘ ‘Your hair, the colleague said. ‘My hair?’ I turned around saying ‘my hair is not long.’

“What do you mean by that? Is this the approved colour of hair?’’ Amadi quoted the lecturer to have asked.

The student noted that she, like other students, had been coming to the school with the hair, noting that brown attachment had always been used in the school even since the last semester.

She noted that the lecturer flared up because she (Amadi) was responding to her, saying she was very stubborn.

“You’re trying to show that you’re very stubborn,’’ she quoted the lecturer to have said. She revealed that the lecturers insisted that even if her father was the governor, they would still have her hair cut.

She narrated how she was pinned down by the male lecturer, Itari, while the female lecturer, Timothy, cut her hair.

How Rivers University Lecturers Pinned Down Student, Cut Her Hair

The video reportedly showed Amadi struggling with the two lecturers, while also trying to avoid being injured by the sharp object.

Meanwhile, the students’ body has since registered their angst against the entire development warranting a letter to the school authorities.

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Titled, Re: physical assault, harassment, humiliation, abuse, and wanton display of arbitrariness unbecoming of legal practitioners/lecturers on students of the Faculty of Law, Rivers State,’ the association condemned the assault on the female student, asking the Dean of the Faculty of Law Professor Christian Wigwe, to act on the matter.

It was signed by Attorney General of the Law Students Association of Nigeria, Kelechi Nwodo.

“As evinced in the video, the said lecturers, Timothy and Itari, did not only harass the female student, but also endangered her life as the scissors wielded by Timothy in the video could have caused severe and life-threatening injury to the young student in the course of the encounter,” the letter said.

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How Rivers University Lecturers Pinned Down Student, Cut Her Hair

Another allegation was that the lecturers allegedly smashed the phones of students who were said to be recording the incident.

“LAWSAN hereby demands that immediate disciplinary action be taken against the lecturers involved,” the students stated.