Rape cases has been a recurrence in Nigeria in the past few weeks in Nigeria. Especially, the case of Uniben student, a 22 year-old Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, who was allegedly raped to death in a redeemed church parish in Benin has raised serious concern on the case of raping in Nigeria.

While many Nigerian were still disturbed by the Uniben student's case, an 18 years old girlidentified as Bello Barakat was reportedly gang raped in Ibadan. Many people, groups and government have since condemned the development. Several Protests has also been staged since then.


As a matter of fact, rape is not peculiar to one country, it is a global scourge that must be condemned at all time. Rape is an instance when a person intentionally PENETRATES another's vagina, anus or mouth with a penis, without the other person's consent. Similar to that is what is called sexual assault. Hence there is what is called assault by penetration and that is when a person penetrates another person's vagina or anus with any part of the body other than a penis, or by using an object, without the person's consent.

What separates sex or a gesture of affection, from sexual assault is a matter of consent. That is, the parties involved agreeing to what's happening by choice and legally, the party must have the freedom and ability to make that choice. therefore, to avoid being accused of rape, you must have the consent of the other party (s)

1. Then to avoid being raped, you must dress decently by always wearing clothes that cover every sensitive part of your body because a sensitive part of your body seen today can trigger rape tomorrow. This applies to both male and female. Exposing sensitive part of your body, it should be noted, can make opposite sex have sexual arousal, so avoid it.

2. Whether male or female, try to avoid touching sensitive part of your body unnecessarily. The danger of this is that it make you to begin to have sexual arousal and when this happened, the next available person may be the instrument you will use to satisfy such arousal, and when you don’t have the consent of the person, it becomes rape.

3. Closely related to that is constant exposure to pornography. This will obviously make you to have sex desire and the next available person may be at the receiving end, again if you don’t have the consent of the person, it is rape.

4. Again, as a lady, you must be careful of where you go. Avoid places where there are notorious men. If you must go to such places, don’t go alone, don’t even attempt to go to such places at night.

5. There have been several cases of children defilement by adult men, to avoid this, parent should be conscious of whom they live their children with. Parent should also be conscious of where their children go.

It is pertinent to state here that an adult rape victim can defend herself or himself. However, everyone needs to learn how and to what extent. The victim should however be careful before making attempt to defend herself (or himself in some rare cases) so as to avoid severe physical injury which sometimes leads to death.

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