Rape, Killings of Women, Children worse than Coronavirus in Nigeria-NGO
By Emmanuel Udom
The Initiative for Women’s Accelerated Development in Africa (INWOAD), has condemned the incessant rape and killing of women and girls in Nigeria.
INWOAD joins other stakeholders in demanding for justice for the family of the latest victims Vera Uwalla Omozuwa, a University of Benin undergraduate who was gang raped and grusomely murderd in Benin recently and 18 year old Barakat Bello who was killed in Ibadan.
National President of the NGO, Ms.Evelyn Hauwa Onyilo in a press statement issued, signed and made available to journalists in Abuja called on the security agencies to bring the perpetrators of these evil acts to book and bring them to justice.
She noted that sexually abusing and murdering of Uwalla in the precincts of a church and the killing of Barakat in rape related circumstances in her home shows that crime is taking a new dimension and all hands must be on deck to bring to an end this unfortunate rise in Sexual Gender Based Violence in Nigeria in line with the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act of 2015.
We must enforce the VAPP act to protect our women and girls from evil people Onyilo added.
It also stated that high incidence of sexual abuse and gender-based violence is a pointer that the seemingly strong are devising ways to lord it over the weaker persons and these must be checked, by way of swift, efficient and effective response to crime by law enforcement agencies.
It encouraged other victims and their families and indeed every Nigerian to speak out against these heinous crimes being increasingly perpetrated in our nation against women, girls and children due to a culture of silence and the fear of stigmatization and ineffective investigation.