Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday expressed his displeasure on the recent rape and violence against women in the country“I am particularly upset at recent incidents of rape, especially of very young girls,” Buhari said in his televised Democracy Day address. It was while walking towards the house she realised it was robbers that broke into the compound. The robbers attacked and strangled her, then took turn to rape her after which she was stabbed to death. “I wish to assure all our women of this administration’s determination to fight Gender-Based Violence through the instrumentality of the law and awareness creation,” Buhari said. “The Police are pursuing these cases with a view to bringing perpetrators of these heinous crimes to swift justice,” he added.

Source: The Guardian June 12, 2020 08:48 UTC