Also on Monday, three armed men allegedly gang-raped a 17-year-old street hawker at the Oja-Oba Market, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. Declare rape national emergency – AIMeanwhile, a global human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd. Frequent reports of rape across Nigeria are a gruesome reminder of the violence women and girls face. “We are joining people in Nigeria to demand justice for Omozuwa (Uwaila), who was raped and murdered in a Nigerian church. Similarly, the Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, advised law enforcement agencies to bring the perpetrators of rape to justice.

Source: Punch June 03, 2020 23:37 UTC