He do am many times ,” the little girl’s voice was shaky with tears as she spoke withShe was pale and her steps were already altered, perhaps from the pains of sexual assaults from her father.
She was guided by two officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related offences, Abuja head office, Wuse Zone 5, to sit on a black iron chair where she continued to narrate her story to our correspondent. She spoke in a mixture of Pidgin English and English.
It was gathered that the abuses went on without Kazeem’s mother noticing it because she would have reportedly slept off in the house. The uncle who caught Kazeem’s father in the act the following day reported him to NAPTIP and he was arrested. The cases were recorded during the lockdown ordered by the Federal Government in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun to curb the spread of coronavirus pandemic which affects critical sectors globally and killed millions across the world. After about five-week lockdown with governors in other states copying similar measures, the lockdown was eased.
Also, a woman, Juliet , was at the centre to report that her husband during the stay-at-home order defiled two of their daughters. Thompson told operatives that she fled from her uncle’s house in Ilorin, Kwara State, and found her way to Abuja when he raped her and wanted to continue the act. A NAPTIP van drove out from the compound and our correspondent was told it was going to rescue a teenage boy whose aunt injured his body with a blade. The aunt claimed that the boy misplaced his sandals.
“A lady in Maitama identified as Susan was almost burnt alive by her husband. We went to rescue her. We have a set of crack detectives who went to the house and the legal department is handling it. He would have killed her if we did not get to the house on time,” a NAPTIP RRS operative narrated. “When you are trying to make something work and someone is not willing to make it work, there will always be problem. You sleep in a room where the air conditioner is too high because you have a child and the man is telling you, ‘It is my house, if you can’t cope with the AC, leave my house’. Immediately you open your mouth to say one thing, he is calling his dad and his mother. The next thing you say, he slaps you. He beats you up.
Our correspondent gathered that sometimes, parents and guardians connived to inflict injuries on home helps and distant family members in their custody–a situation which NAPTIP described as worrisome and wicked. “He was angry and he began to flog me with his belt, the mopping stick and his hands. But that was the usual way he beats me. My aunt joined in the beating too. She said the highest that would happen to him was to go to jail.”
Also, a woman who holds a PhD was beaten up by her husband to a level that blood dripped from her eyes and ears. “In one province, a telephone number set up to receive coded emoji messages from women facing violence received four messages containing a sun–meaning, I am in immediate danger, four times a day, every day in the last few months,” it noted.
In North America, across 15 United States’ cities, during the period, there was a 10.2 per cent increase in domestic violence-related calls to the police–a high cost for asking people to spend a lot more time at home in a stressful period. According to the UN Department of Global Communications, there are more shocking statistics on such crimes in Europe.
The DG said, “For me at NAPTIP, my job is to protect Nigerian men and women. We are not playing politics with it. We take our jobs seriously because that is what we are paid to do. No Nigerian man or woman will be treated as a slave anywhere in the world – that trend we will continue to fight. She added, “The fear of stigmatisation is one reason why many people don’t report these crimes. If anyone is raped, the first thing to do is to report it at a police station in the condition in which you are raped.
A civil society, the Child Protection Network, enjoined government to combat the rising rape and child molestation cases by instructing the 36 states to domesticate the Child Rights Act.
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