Rape, rape everywhere
through Benin City, Edo State last week, demanding justice in the mortal rape of Uwaila Omozuwa, an 100- level undergraduate of the University of Benin.
Also on Monday, a teenager, a diploma student of Federal College of Animal Health and Production, was attacked in her home. Unlike the misplaced notion that only wild and indecent girls are sexually molested, Barakat Bello is said to be quite decent, homely and pious. Her attackers left no chance for her survival as they had no restraint in using the machete with which they were armed in stariking her on the head and neck.
The assailants, too, do not fit a single description. Some are single, others are married. Some are rich and educated, others are poor. Fathers, uncles, brothers are part of the narrative, as are traditional rulers and religious leaders. They do not come just as hemp-smoking criminals, but equally as suave, seemingly gentlemen who stand in loco parentis.
Unfortunately, all are failing in performing the responsibility. The family institution has been assailed so much that it really hardly stands in the society today as many homes are broken and the children in such homes brought up by single parents. In some cases, delinquent parents turn their children, especially the male children, to the streets early in life where they are initiated into criminal gangs and violent cults.
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