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  • Justify rape, get detained – NAPTIP tells Nigerians

    Justify rape, get detained – NAPTIP tells Nigerians

    Mrs Julie Okah-Donli, Director-General (DG), National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), has warned Nigerians to desist from justifying rape or get arrested as suspects.

     

    Okah-Donli said this while answering questions from newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday.

     

    She queried parents for not doing enough to take care of their wards and children, explaining that 90 per cent of rape cases were committed by uncles, fathers and relations.

    According to her, many careless acts by parents are responsible for rape cases across the country.

     

    She, therefore, said that the agency would approach the Ministry of Justice to push for the establishment of special court to try rapists.

     

    Okah-Donli also called for life imprisonment instead of capital punishment for convicted rapists, adding that there was need to educate Nigerians, especially neighbours on rape issues.

     

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the agency’s toll-free lines to call during distress, especially as it concerns rape are – 07030000203, 0802255627847 and 08077225566.

     

    The NAPTIP boss said that cases could also be reported on social media platforms such as the Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, among others.

     

     

     

    She, however, said that there was no national template of victims’ trauma response to share pain, adding that the duration of psychological trauma varies from individuals.

     

  • Oyo State Govt addresses issue of rape

    Oyo State Govt addresses issue of rape

    The Oyo State Government says is addressing issue of rape to protect girls and young persons from abuse.

    The State Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Mr Seun Fakorede, disclosed this on Monday in Ibadan.

    Fakorede spoke while receiving protesting members of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), led by the National President of the association, Mr Bamidele Akpan, ay the State Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan.

    He said the State House of Assembly is working on laws to tackle the menace of rape incidents in the state.

    The students were protesting the death of an 18-year-old Barakat Bello, who was gang-raped and murdered on June 2, at Akinyele area of Ibadan.

    Bello until her death was a student of the Federal College of Animal Health and Production, Ibadan.

    Fakorede, while addressing the students on behalf of Gov. Seyi Makinde, described rape as a very condemnable act, assuring that the state will do everything possible to bring the perpetrators of Bello to justice.

    “As part of measures to bring the perpetrators to book and nip such dastardly acts in the bud, the state government, in collaboration with the police, has swung into action.

    “All concerned institutions will deal with this seriously and I want to say that Oyo is one of the states leading and giving adequate direction to how we are meant to handle this dastardly act.

    “Of course, this act is very condemnable and we deeply condemn it as a state. I can assure you that we will do everything to bring justice for Barakat.

    “It will not only be for her but a whole lot of people that are victims of these unfortunate incidences.

    “I salute you, NANS President and everyone that is part of this entourage. I bring you the greetings of Gov. Makinde,” the commissioner stated.

    Earlier, Akpan said students from different parts of the country were in Ibadan to protest the unfortunate killing of Bello.

    “The dastardly act of the rapists who chose to go the other way by raping our students to death.

    “This we are doing as our own contribution to the sustenance of the society and of government because they say evil thrives when the good people stay quiet,” he said.

    He extended NANS’ condolences to the deceased family, the Federal College of Animal Health and Production, the Oyo State government and the people of the state.

    Akpan also called on the Nigeria Police and other relevant authorities to speed up the investigation process and fish out those behind the dastardly act.

  • Religious leaders responsible for 75% of rape cases I’m handling – Foluke Daramola Salako

    Outspoken actress and coordinator of Passion Against Rape and Abuse In Africa Foundation(PARA),Foluke Daramola Salako has stated that 75% of rape cases her organization had handled were perpetrated by religious leaders.

     

    Daramola-Salako disclosed this during an Instagram live chat on Saturday while narrating how she was raped by her tenant when she was a teenager

     

    According to her, “75% of the cases I have on my table are from religious leaders and most times we don’t get to the end of it.

     

     

    “This is because when we start investigating the cases, the family would come and tell us we should leave the religious leader to God.”

     

    She further debunked claims that indecent dressing by ladies is responsible for the increase in the number of rape cases.

     

    The actress noted that rape is just a sign of weakness by rapists, adding that “Nothing attracts rape. Why do they rape minors, teenagers, and even old women. Is that also about indecent dressing?

    Daramola- Salako said most victims of rape cases in Nigeria are children, teenagers and elderly women who do not dress indecently.

     

    She added, “You hardly find rape cases against young women except for sexual assaults and abuse in workplaces, we find it mostly amongst children, teenagers, and elderly women, how come you are now telling me it is indecent dressing”?

     

     

  • Warri Bishop charged with rape, victim in coma for days

    Warri Bishop charged with rape, victim in coma for days

    Delta state police command has arrested a popular Warri cleric, Bishop Elijah, over alleged rape of a 19-year-old girl, identified as Miracle.

    Miracle was said to have gone to his church, off Apalla in the heart of Warri South council area, for spiritual deliverance when the incident happened.

    Briefing newsmen over the arrest, the Warri Area Commander, ACP Mohammed Muktar Garba, said the suspect who is the founder/general overseer of a popular prayer ministry was traced to where he hid and was arrested last Friday.

    According to him, the suspect is currently being detained at the “A Division’” police station.

    He disclosed that the arrest was effected following a complaint by the mother of the victim.

    He said the mother took the daughter to the church for deliverance to avert sudden death based on revelations of the pastor who has been her spiritual father for many years.

    ACP Garba said, “she said the pastor had a dream that death was hovering over their house and for peace to reign, she should bring her daughter, Miracle, for prayers (deliverance).

    “The woman brought the lady to the church. I think what really happened is that the pastor May have drugged that lady and raped her. I personally took the lady to the hospital because she was in coma for two days.

    “We have been looking for this pastor for the past three weeks. Later on I used my detectives to trace where he hid and I got him arrested and I am charging him to court now. This is somebody that I arrested since Friday. He has been in cell since Friday, Saturday, Sunday and today Monday, I am charging him to court.”

    While noting that the police would ensure full-scale investigations into the matter, ACP Garba acknowledged that, “we have prophets that are good. We have churches that are very good. But I cannot imagine a pastor raping his member inside the church premises.

    “And it is this same pastor that’s making allegation that the police are looking for money to release him. He has a right to say whatever he wants to say. But as far as I’m concerned and as far as I remain the Area Commander, this man is going to court and he must be charged to court.”

    ACP Garba added that: “We have evidence to prove rape and we have established that this pastor raped that girl.

    “We have pictures. We have examined her. I took her to the doctor. He has examined her private parts and we have everything to charge this man to court.”

    ACP Garba also denied allegations of collecting money from the suspect to release him or suppress the matter.

    He said, “I did not demand a dime from him and I will not collect a dime from him. He must face the wrath of the law.”

    However, the suspect, Bishop Elijah denied the allegations leveled against him.

    The cleric who spoke with newsmen on his way out of the police station to the court said: “I did not rape her.”

    “she came to church on that faithful day on the 20th of May. The mother brought her to the church for deliverance and I prayed for her in front of the altar in the presence of three people. Immediately, after the prayer, she left the church …. She came back 5 ‘o’clock with policemen and the crowd saying this is the man. I did not rape her.”

    Narrating her side of the story bebefore newsmen, the victim said she was a member of the church from cradle before she stopped.

    She said the suspect saw a vision and asked her mother to bring her for deliverance.

    The victim pointed out that the cleric said she (victim) slept with a suspected internet fraudster (Yahoo Boy) and that they cleaned her up with a handkerchief with an intention to use her for ritual.

    The victim claimed that the cleric gave her olive oil to insert in her private part just as he also gave her more to drink before asking her to strip naked and lie down on a mat in the church with the sliding windows and doors closed.

    “He started f**king me through the back. That was all I could remember. There were sperm all over my body. I shouted. He even said I should come again.

    “I want to be the last he will do this to.”

  • Lady who accused D’banj of rape, demands apology

    Lady who accused D’banj of rape, demands apology

    A Nigerian lady identified as Miss Seyitan Babatayo who accused D’banj of sexual assault has demanded an apology from the entertainer

     

    The young lady through her lawyer demanded a private and public apology. She also threatened to institute criminal charges against Dbanj’ if he does not comply.

     

    A letter from her lawyer reads in part;

     

    “Our brief details the following narrations as recounted by our client in establishing the premise for her request as follows.

     

    On 30th December 2018, our client was invited to an All-White Rendezvous Party at Eko Atlantic City by your former manager who at that point in time was your manager, one Mr Franklin.

     

    The party ended a bit late and our client was stranded on the Island as she could not find a way back home. She was thereafter faced with the option of following one Oyinda and her boyfriend to their hotel room at Glee Hotel Victoria Island to wait for Mr Franklin who invited her. Oyinda’s boyfriend is one of your friends and Oyinda is well known to you.

     

    When Mr Franklin came to Glee Hotel, he was in a hurry and did not drop from his car. Our client had to meet Mr Franklin at the parking lot and Mr Franklin gave up his room at the Glee Hotel to our client and gave her the key-card to the room so she can pass the night and find her way home the following morning. Mr Franklin thereafter slept off after the conversation with Oyinda with the door of her hotel room locked.

     

    At about 3 am on 31st December 2018 while our client was fast asleep, you gained access to the room where our client was sleeping with an extra key-card and forcefully had canal knowledge of our client without her consent and with the threat that you will send her out of the hotel naked if she screams or attempt to alert people that she was about to be or is being raped. After having the said forced sexual intercourse with our client, you left without uttering a word to our client.

     

    The following morning, our client narrated her ordeal to Oyinda and Oyinda’s boyfriend who showed sympathy with her. Oyinda’s boyfriend latterly gave our client a $100 (one hundred dollar) note to check herself for possible infection and get some contraceptives since she just had unprotected sex.

     

    The aftermath of the incidence has been damaging to our client’s psychological, physical and emotional being. Our client’s state of being has been totally eroded wit the rape incidence and she has once had the thought of ending it all by taking her own life.

     

    This was further exacerbated by your present stand against rape and sexual violence against women when indeed you have once perpetrated the crime against her and you never apologize to her.”

  • Indecent dressing is not an invitation to rape-Yul Edochie

    Indecent dressing is not an invitation to rape-Yul Edochie

    Nollywood actor and director, Yul Edochie says indecent dressing is not an invitation to rape.

    In a tweet shared via his Twitter page on Sunday, June 7, 2020, the movie star turned politician said indecent dressing should not be a benchmark for any woman to be raped or sexually harassed.

    “I do not encourage indecent dressing. But no matter how indecently dressed she is, guy it’s not an invitation for rape,” he tweeted.

    “If you both agreed on pay as you go, you pay, she no wan give you, get ur money back through non-violent means. Do not touch her. There’s no excuse for rape.”

    TheNewsGuru recalls that actor and media personality, Uti Nwachukwu was recently accused of raping a lady, a claim he debunked.

    Nwachukwu stated that he was away in Houston, Texas, US, on August 5, 2017, the date of the alleged incident.

    Uti submitted his petition through his lawyers, Johnmary C. Jideobi and Co., at the IGP’s office in Abuja on Friday.

     

    The lawyer, Johnmary Jideobi, stated that his client emphatically denied all the allegations contained in the impugned tweets of Kambili Korie which are nothing but the figment of the imagination of the person who contrived same.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • My mother’s relative attempted to molest me at 10- Bisi Fayemi

    Wife of Ekiti Governor, Bisi Fayemi has revealed that her mother’s relative attempted to molest her when she was 10.

    Fayemi made this known in a live Instagram chat with Dolapo Badmus, a trained domestic and sexual violence responder. The governor’s wife emphasized on the need for parents to pay attention to issues affecting their children.

     

    “Last year, when the Busola Dakolo issue happened, I stressed the importance of us listening to stories of rape survivors and I shared my own experience when I was a young girl. I was around 10 at the time, my mother brought one of his relatives from her hometown to help the house.

     

    “Because we were kids, we usually sleep in the same room then. I was on the bed with one of my aunties, my brother was on another bed and this young man was sleeping somewhere near our bed. In the middle of the night, he started pulling my bed sheet. Initially, I thought it was a mistake.

     

    “So, he would pull the bed sheet and I would pull them back. He did it again and I pulled them back. So, the third time, I decided to wait and see if he was doing it on purpose. Lo and Behold, he pulled the sheet totally off me. At that point, I asked him ‘what are you doing?’ and he replied ‘kosi’ (which in English means nothing).

     

    “The following morning, as early as 6am, I went up to my mother and narrated what happened to me. When I came back from school that afternoon, he was already gone. That was my mother’s relative.

     

    “What if I had told my mother and she had said ‘shut up, how dare you?’ What could have happened to me. It meant that her relative could have proceeded to do something else with me. So, we need to listen to our children.”

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    Bisi, who is an anti-gender based violence supporter, said the current outrage over cases of rape in the country was suggestive of the growing awareness about the scourge.

     

    The governor’s wife said the country cannot afford to fail in its fight against rape and other forms of sexual assaults.

     

    “Now is the time for all of us to speak up. No one is safe. If we lose this fight, what it means is that we are condemning ourselves to being a country that has zero value for women and children and that we are all tolerating a culture of sexual violence,” she added.

     

     

  • Ebonyi community sends SoS to IGP over alleged murder, rape

    Ebonyi community sends SoS to IGP over alleged murder, rape

    The people of Edda community in Afikpo Local Government Area of Ebonyi, has urged the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mr Mohammed Adamu to come to their rescue over alleged murder cases, torture and rape of their people.

    The call was made through a Save Our Souls (SOS) letter by Edda Intervention and Rescue Initiative, a group pressing for the rights of people of Edda clan, and submitted to the IGP in Abuja.

    Coordinator of the group, Chief Abia Onyeike, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja that, in the letter dated May 20, about 22 cases of murder, torture, assault, rape and other crimes were allegedly visited on the people.

    Onyeike, a former Commissioner for Information in Ebonyi, complained in the letter that the incidents had been happening since 2007 with some of them reported to the police but no action taken.

    He gave an instance with a development that occurred in Owutu Edda between May 2 and May 6 when three incidents of murder by alleged cult groups were linked to politicians.

    The former commissioner noted that another incident occurred on May 10, at Ogwuma Edda where 20-year-old Oji Sunday recounted how he was almost buried alive.

    Onyeike also recalled how another young man of 19, Chidi Oji was also gunned down and his body taken away by the alleged killers on March 27, at Nguzu, Edda.

    “Our complaint is about the death of four persons between March 27 and May 6, and not a single arrest has been made.

    “Even when arrests are made, the accused persons who walk free are left out while people unconnected with the incident are apprehended and later released to send the impression that something was done.

    “Gov. Dave Umahi had addressed the state and called on the police and the DSS to do their work at the last killings, not a single person has been arrested.

    “Almost all these incidents have been linked to members of a group called ‘Morekanbedone’ which is said to be a terror group serving the interest of a particular politician in Edda.

    “And some of the incidents not linked to them are still politically motivated and we want answers to all these if there is still law and order in Nigeria, Ebonyi and Edda,” Onyeike said.

    According to him, the people now live in fear and intimidation and therefore appeals with the IGP for rescue.

    “We have written the IGP, the DG of the Department of State Security (DSS), the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission.

    “We have also written to the Chief of Army Staff because we can’t bear the terror any more, otherwise we will all be dead.

    “Edda cries to these agencies to know if their rights have been subsumed under those of the ‘Morkanbedone’ members rights to kill and not be punished.

    “As helpless people who had already ceded their rights to self-protect to the state, we seek immediate and sufficient protection of the state before all of us are murdered and gone.

    “We want the allegations proven and justice served because the silence of the past is what made their instrumentality of carnage so potent. There should be a stop now,” he added.

    When contacted, Force Public Relations Officer, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Frank Mbah, told NAN that he was not aware of the letter.

    He assured to get back to NAN when the information on the development got to his table.

  • FCT minister advocates stiffer penalties for rapists

    FCT minister advocates stiffer penalties for rapists

    The Minister of State FCT, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, has called for stiffer penalties against rapists to check the increasing cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence.

    Mr Austine Elemue, Special Assistant on Media to the minister, in a statement on Sunday, said Aliyu made the call while presenting palliative items to the FCT National Council of Women Societies (NCWS) and other unions.

    The minister also suggested that rapists should be castrated to serve as a deterrent to others.

    Aliyu revealed that the FCT administration was working closely with security agencies and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person (NAPTIP) to push for serious institutional framework that would ensure justice is served.

    She said the FCT administration would engage members of various communities in the battle against rape, especially of minors.

    Aliyu, who described defilement of minors as a heinous crime, said that death penalty was not the best of option for offenders.

    According to her, when a society chooses to kill such offenders, they die, not remembering the crime they have committed against humanity.

    “We will involve every member of the community in this battle against rape.

    “Just recently, we began a search for one offender and definitely we will nip it in the bud.

    “In conjunction with all the security outfits and NAPTIP, we are on the watch, and for any offender that we get, we will take it to any length to ensure that he is not fit to live.

    “We are also pushing for serious institutional framework that will ensure that justice is done.

    “It is not enough to just jail such person, definitely punishment like castration will do.

    “When we kill them, they die and not remembering anything.

    “Therefore, they should be castrated and roam the streets and remain inactive,’’ Aliyu said.

    The minister used the occasion to appeal to the leadership of NCWS to ensure that the palliative items get to the vulnerable.

    She expressed optimism that in no distance time Nigeria would be free from COVID-19 pandemic.

    Responding, the President of FCT Council of NCWS, Mrs Hadiza Umar, thanked the FCT administration for the kind gesture.

    Umar assured that the items would be distributed among widows in the society.

  • Serial rapist sentenced to 441 years imprisonment

    Serial rapist sentenced to 441 years imprisonment

    A serial rapist, named Ndumiso Giyani has been sentenced to 441 years imprisonment for a litany of charges in Kimberley, the capital city of South Africa’s Northern Cape Province.

    Giyani’s crimes included 14 counts of rape, 12 counts of robbery with aggravated circumstances, two counts of attempted robbery with aggravated circumstances and six counts of kidnapping.

    Giyani was arrested in January 2019 after a police manhunt that began when investigators linked him to a string of rapes and robberies committed between 2014 and 2018.

    After his four year reign of terror and subsequent arrest, he was found guilty in the Kimberley High Court on more than 30 charges, including 14 counts of rape late last year. He was sentenced June 5th.

    Police officials welcomed the sentence which they felt was appropriate for the egregious crimes which Giyani was convicted of in November 2019.

    “The SAPS in the Northern Cape welcomes the 441 years imprisonment handed down to serial rapist, Ndumiso Giyani in the Northern Cape High Court today, 05 June 2020.

    “The accused terrorised the communities of Kimberley, Galeshewe and Kagisho from 2014 until 2018. After intense investigations, Giyane was eventually linked in 2018 and arrested on 24 January 2019.

    “He was found guilty on 11 November 2019 in the Kimberley High Court on 14 counts of rape, 12 counts of robbery with aggravated circumstances, two counts of attempted robbery with aggravated circumstances and six counts of kidnapping,” SAPS spokesperson, Captain Sergio Kock stated.

    Judge Mathebe Phatshoane’s chief concern in handing down the sentence was ensuring that Giyani be prevented from visiting further harm to the community, according to the South African.