A student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Mirabel Obi, has come out publicly to debunk claims of her expulsion.
The 100-level student of medical laboratory sciences, went viral in a video after she almost went naked over a dancing contest in a bid to allegedly win herself the sum of N30,000.
An administrator from the school was believed to have threatened to enable her expulsion prior to her dancing.
Mirabel, has then denied the claims that she had been expelled due to the threats she had received, saying she’s still a current student of the school.
She went on to say that at some point she had though of taking her own life over remorse.
“I wasn’t even myself at the moment; I was simply thinking that because I don’t know my way around, I should just kill myself,” she stated.
“I just had to spend the night in someone’s home; someone with whom I had no connection… Because I couldn’t think straight at the time, I didn’t eat that night or the next day”.
“I was thinking to myself that I should just take sniper and kill myself.”
Mirabel added that her post was to address several “fake news” making the rounds about the viral video.
“Normally I would let this slide because I am not clout chasing and I owe no one an explanation, but, am tired of seeing different fake news on the story and at this moment, I feel it is pertinent to address this issue publicly. This is the real story behind it all,” she wrote.
“My name is Mirabel, a medical student of UNN. On the 28th, October 2021, there was an awareness for a concert in the school. Awareness is what people do almost everytime and what comes with it is usually a dance competition and that day, we were competing for 30k.
“I happened to be one of the contenders. I have watched a lot of girls compete in the past and what they wore was nothing better than mine.
“It was equivalent to what I wore and sometimes worse, because after all, we feel we are dancing in front of our fellow females, but then I feel the amount I made was the reason for the video going viral.
“The dean of student affairs got hold of the video and I really do not know what they told him about me that made him rage in so much anger and also to make the decision to expel me.
“Here are the points am trying to make: I am not and was never expelled because we all know that you cannot expel a student on the ground of twerking, not yet”.
“We were all dancing in front of the girls hostel, and there was never a place that twerking is violating the school rules and regulations.
“Twerking has nothing to with my academics because you can’t even make it to be a medical student in UNN without crossing 300 and above in your JAMB. I am still very serious and I know how to balance my social/academic life.
“It was never a competition for 10k. It was 30k.”
Mirabel said she had endured humiliation since the video went viral, alleging that she was also harassed in the process.
“I wasn’t expelled, I repeat I was only harassed without being heard from (the authorities in question badged into my hostel and ransacked my properties),” she added.
“Ever since then, I have faced so much humiliation, I don’t even know how to come out anymore, I keep wondering if it was really worth it.
“A lot of my properties have been damaged and some are nowhere to be found like how do you invade someone’s privacy.”
The institution is yet to react as of the time of this report.
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