Maybe it was a moment of TikTok craze that made it happen, only Miss Goddy-Mbakwe Chimamaka Precious knows the answer. What is certain at this moment is that her assault on a Nnamdi Azikiwe University (Unizik) lecturer, Awka in Anambra State earlier in the week has delivered an expulsion letter sent directly from the school’s Senate, obviously meaning she can no longer be an undergraduate of History and International Studies but all is not lost if a moment can be spared for reflection.

When those who worship love celebrate Valentine’s Day, some will be ruing their luck. Goddy-Mbakwe was in her third year of studies at the federally-owned university before the unfortunate clash with Dr. Chukwudi Michael of the Department of Theater and Film Studies who didn’t want to appear in a video the undergrad had been making for her Tik-Tok.

Consequently, the Ag. Vice-Chancellor has, on behalf of the University Senate, approved the Committee’s recommendation that you be expelled and you are hereby expelled from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. The expulsion takes immediate effect, reads one of the paragraphs evident in a letter addressed to the third year.

Also, the communication went on, you are expected to vacate the University premises immediately and return any University property in your possession.

Studying the heat maps signals to capture the story, on one hand, a senior lecturer was sustaining severe bite marks when he was assaulted and then on the other, a student trying to fulfil her dreams through the power social media and expression installs on one when these features have been mastered.

The distortion happened the moment she was tapped by Dr. Micheal passing through a lecture area corridor where the expelled was making the clip. According to the lecturer’s Facebook explanation after the incident, he only needed the student who reportedly disliked the interruption to give way as he returned to his office.

She was making a TikTok video and I needed to pass because of the way the place was and someone was on the other side.

I just tapped her and said, ‘excuse me’ and walked off. And when she made that insulting comment, I had to turn back to first ascertain if she was a student or my student in the department.

Getting to her, the lecturer said that he needed the video she was making to be deleted. When she refused, I stretched my hand to confiscate the phone and that is when hell let loose he says.

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Elsewhere Goddy-Mbakwe Chimamaka Precious found herself the room to share her view of how things developed to nasty bites. Her response to the lecturer appears an attempt to lose herself from what was looking like an unrelenting grip during the fracas.

The way the pendulum swung might feel like it was the staff’s version of the encounter that was heard and decided on by Unizik’s Senate, hence the 300-level’s expulsion yet she stands on this story of her womanly aesthetics being laid out in full glare.

Mind you, I didn’t even know he was a lecturer. I pleaded with him, ‘Sorry sir, why are you dragging my phone? But he remained silent, tugging at my phone until it fell and broke.

This was in addition to being examined around the breast region and the lecturer reportedly saying unspeakable things made up one of the things she remembered.

I was left stunned, trying to comprehend the horror unfolding before me. As I realised my cleavage was exposed, I begged him to let me go, but he ignored my pleas, holding me firmly. His nails and clutches left certain prints and scratches on my chest rather.

I was mortified. I tried to cover myself, pulling my dress together, and exclaimed in desperation, ‘Sir, I’ll hold you oh!’. I didn’t mean to threaten him; I just wanted him to release me. But he wouldn’t budge. In a split second, I bit his hands, hoping he’d let go. That was when I held his clothes and accidentally tore his shirt.

The consequences of the encounter only came after two days.

When the Nnamdi Azikiwe University expulsion letter hit the public domain, most online comments saw justice and a lesson never to go against authority even if the scenario might be oppression. It is the thought that an educational system will always protect its own.

The University will always stand by the lecturer which is the best thing to do, they [have] to make an example that a lecturer they employ shouldn’t be messed it, you can’t assault a lecturer and expect the university to not make an example even if the lecturer is wrong, an X profile Seethejackals tweeted a reaction.

Here is Iamlordbernie all thinking on the same line. They just had to expel her if not they’ll open [the] way for other students to look for reasons to assault lecturers.

This particular tweet by Bernie advised that if a lecturer does anything, keep video proof and report them, you can’t win against the system you’re in with violence.

No need crying over split milk was the way Igwe Solomon put it though. This profile can picture three positive steps which seemed better than letting oneself be soaked into the depression of getting expelled.

First, according to the blogger, Goddy-Mbakwe ought not to see her circumstance as the end of the world. Anyone who finds themselves in the TikToker’s shoes should write a public apology.

Doing this is helpful and indicates making peace with the situation and opening up to moving on to other equally interesting but challenging endeavours of trying to bag a university degree in a world driven by Artificial Intelligence algorithms.

Then after going through with the apology, the next is to get over the impulsion of seeking to quickly enrol into another school. Let the hostile waves simmer down a bit and in the process spend like three years at home to serve as an apprentice or learn a skill.

If someone in Miss Goddy-Mbakwe Chimamaka Precious wills it, they can start a TikTok brand if the passion is still there. The ByteDance-owned social media platform was where her blip kicked off, maybe it can also be her crowning.

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