In Nigeria, being a young woman “is a crime” – beautician vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
In Nigeria, being a young woman “is a crime”, said a 25-year-old beautician, arrested two weeks ago while walking home in the capital Abuja. In this file photo taken on March 29, 2017 prostitutes stand walk on the street in Benin City, capital of Edo State, southern Nigeria. – On April 17 and 26, 2019 dozens of women were arrested in night clubs, strip-tease clubs, luxury hotels and in the streets of Abuja for prostitution, but many of them strongly deny it.
“They took me to the bush behind a building,” she said, her voice cracking with emotion. “There were four of them. They molested me, and while three were holding me down, one of them raped me. He didn’t use a condom.”In two dramatic raids last month, dozens of women were dragged out of nightclubs, hotels and bars — or simply taken off the streets — in Abuja.The sweeping police crackdown in the federal capital has sparked outrage in the news and on social media in Africa’s most populous nation.
Testimonies from women given to AFP provide shocking stories of multiple and brutal sexual assaults. The women accuse officers from the federal police force.Lawyer and activist Martin Obono happened to be at the Utako police station in Abuja on the night of April 26 for another case. One of the women dragged into the station on that Friday was a 22-year-old who had been at a party in a hotel when the police arrived.
However, Abayomi Shogunle, Assistant Commissioner of Police, posted a message this week on social media addressed to “those making noise on the clampdown on prostitutes in Abuja”. Some of the women have already appeared in court. “Some were prostitutes, others not, but in no case can this justify their rights being violated,” Ogbogu said.
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