By Mary Bassey
Service Compact with All Nigerians (SERVICOM), University of Calabar (UNICAL) Directorate has been chastised for its new ‘indecent dressing’ regulation.
The Directorate issued a circular signed by its Director, Prof. Egaga Patrick on 31st of March, 2023 blacklisting many dressing styles it termed ‘indecent dressing’ among staff and students.
It said it noticed with “grave concern the rate, preponderance and proliferation of indecent, provocative and unofficial dressing mostly by students and especially by some female staff.”
The banned dressing styles that are banned on campus with effect from Tuesday 2nd May 2023 are short skirts or gowns (above the knee), open backs, crap tops, braless tops and gowns, spaghetti finger, sleeveless tops, handless gowns, and bikinis.
Others are see-through (transparent) apparel revealing contours, handless gowns, bum short revealing laps slit skirts, body hugs, V-necks exposing breasts, tubes, stripless, rag (rugged) jeans, shorts (above the knee) sleeveless shirts, singlets, Iingerics, and sagged trousers.
A rights advocate, Barrister James Ibor, alumni of the institution rebuked the SERVICOM Directorate over the new regulation, calling it shameless and dead on arrival.
Venting his anger through Facebook, he said they have “finally abandoned learning and character to regulate dressing, SHAME.”
He added that “This same school stinks with staff-aided malpractices such as examination malpractice, extortion, sexual assaults, and a very poor learning environment. The rebranding effort SERVICOM has failed to promote scholarship and is dead on arrival.”
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