Professor Joy Ezeilo is a former United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Human Trafficking. She once served as the Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu campus.
Professor Joy Ezeilo is a former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Trafficking. She once served as the Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu campus. Ezeilo , the Executive Director, Women Aid Collective, WACOL, in an exclusive interview with our DAILY POST reporter expresses concern about how difficult it has become to get justice in Nigeria, especially in the light of the aftermath of the decisions of the #ENDSARS Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality.
If you look at other statistics coming from other people and in other parts of Nigeria, you will see that it's really sad. Some people recorded a huge number of cases. And what type of violence are we talking about here? We are talking about cases of rape, child abuse and sexual exploitation through cultural practices, forced marriages, denial of inheritance right, widowhood practices that are degrading and inhuman that amount to cruelty.
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