Tackling Nigeria’s rape crisis

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NIGERIA is engulfed in a rape crisis. Our women (and in a minority of cases, men) are under siege from sex maniacs. It is a nationwide custodia ssd samsung phenomenon, and cover iphone se aliexpress the time has cover iphone 6 pelle come for all of us to pay it the critical attention it deserves.

The episode that sparked off protests involved Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, an undergraduate of the University of Benin who was gang raped and murdered while reading inside a church about a fortnight ago. custodia cover samsung s4 Within the same period the police cover samsung s6 usa went on a manhunt after 12 men, including a 57 year old man who on several occasions raped a 12 year old girl in Dutse, Jigawa State.

As it began to dawn on Nigerians that there is a rape epidemic amidst the coronavirus custodia samsung s2 9.7 pandemic, a Director of custodia folio in pelle per iphone xs max the Anambra State Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, Mrs. Nkechi Anazodo, announced the shocking find that under this lockdown her department documented over 80 rape cases. This could be just a tip of the iceberg of a national trend.

The worst part of it is that these violent sex crimes sometimes end in murder or threats of same. And cover samsung tab s 8 the culprits are more likely than not family members and samsung a3 2017 custodia libro people who should normally earn the trust of the victims. These include religious leaders, fathers and custodia cover huawei y6 2018 uncles of the cover posteriore iphone 6 victims and young men involved in cultism and drug abuse.

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Nollywood samsung galaxy s7 edge led display flip view custodia actress and founder of Passion Against come aprire custodia iphone Rape and Abuse Africa, PARAA, Foluke Daramola Salako, recently depicted the prominent role that “religious leaders” play custodia cover samsung a5 in this criminality: “Seventy five per cent of custodia flip samsung prezzo the cases I have on my table (involve) religious leaders, and a lot of the time, we don’t get to the end of it, because when we start, the family would come and tell us we should leave the religious leader to God”.

The stigmata that goes with being raped discourages the victims from coming out timeously custodia samsung s 5 neo and increasing the chances of the criminal being subjected to justice. In many cases, the victims are wrongly blamed for alleged “indecent” dressing.

Debunking this notion, Daramola Salako said: “You hardly find rape cases custodia devia iphone 7 against young women except for sexual assaults. We find it mostly among kids, teenagers and elderly women”.

The upsurge in rape is a custodia power bank per samsung a8 2018 crisis that touches on the mental state of the average iphone 6s custodia batteria citizen.

We must keep the searchlight on it and sensitise our governments and people to exercise more vigilance at custodia cover iphone 7 8 se2020 family and community levels to provide greater protection for our womenfolk.

Rape is a violent crime that dehumanises the victims and devalues their sense of self worth. There must be no place in our society for sexual predators. We must chain and lock this monster in a dungeon. Our womenfolk and vulnerable people of all ages must cover samsung galaxy s7 edge be adequately protected…