TACKLING THE RISING RAPE CASES Perpetrators of the crime must be severely and swiftly sanctioned It must worry the Nigerian authorities that rape has assumed epidemic proportions.
It must worry the Nigerian authorities that rape has assumed epidemic proportions. In school premises, hospital wards, places of worship, corporate and government offices and playgrounds, no place is sacred for these predators. While rape, the act of sexual assault against a person comes in different forms, the most common in our country is against girls and women.
Accurate statistics of victims are difficult to come by, essentially because in our country, insensitivity, and the fear of stigma discourage targets of sexual violence from formalising the reports of incidents. This reluctance, however, has only contributed to the rise in a culture of impunity on the part of the perpetrators.
A non-governmental organisation, Women at Risk International Foundation , in collaboration with the United States Consulate General, Lagos, recently called for an end to rape, sexual violence and trafficking of women through a three-kilometre walk along the Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge. “Sexual and gender-based violence is a human rights violation with detrimental impacts on victims, survivors, families, communities, and societies,” says WARIF founder, Kemi DaSilva-Ibru.
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