The International Federation of Women Lawyers, FEDA, has been tasked to step up sensitization on societal values as well as undertake indepth research into the psychology of the culprits if the fight against rape must be won. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Comrade Ini Ememobong gave the charge today, Friday 21st August, 2020 while playing host to the Executive members of the State branch of FEDA, during a courtesy call on him in the Conference room of the Ministry. Comrade Ini Ememobong said, the fundamental causes of rape must be traced and thrashed while the negative moral values which ginger criminality such as rape must be reversed if the society is to be free of the ravaging rape menace. He decried the declining moral, cultural and societal values which encourage criminal activities and urged the women organization to heighten Advocacy on misplaced values for quick and easy money rather than integrity and merit, parental pressure on children and wards for early marriage, inhibiting societal norms against freedom of expression by women and mental conditioning against inferiority complex amongst men. The Chairperson who said the appointment was long overdue based on the pedigree of Comrade Ememobong and his trail blazing records of achievements during his days as the PDP Publicity Secretary, expressed with optimism that the Commissioner will deliver on his Mandate.

Source: The Guardian August 22, 2020 05:48 UTC