The management of University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) has said that the viral incident of an alleged lecturer caressing an unwilling student in his office did not happen at the institution.
The video went viral on Monday with information attached suggesting it happened at Uniport.
Uniport dismissed the report that the incident happened in one of the offices in its Microbiology Department.
The institution’s Public Relations Officer, Dr Sam Kpenu stated that it was purely a case of misrepresentation as its faculty of Microbiology, Department of Microbiology is upstairs.
He further suggested that it was curious that the video was originally released by the Rivers State University TV.
Dr. Kpenu said the incident did not happen at the University of Port-Harcourt.
The statement read:
“If you look at the video, the video was released by the Rivers State University TV – RSUTV Video. If you look at the video you will see the inscription RSUTV. So it has nothing to do with the University of Port-Harcourt.
“It is purely misrepresentation and then our faculty of Microbiology, Department of Microbiology is upstairs but if you look at the video you can see outside with grasses. So our microbiology is upstairs, it is in three three-story building upstairs, so we don’t have such a thing in our university.
“That’s why we are not in a hurry to respond to the video. It is the Rivers State University TV that released that, so that thing did not happen at the University of Port-Harcourt. The video is fake and was released by the Rivers State University TV. We never recorded such an incident in our university.”
