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Reports On ABSU Gang-Violation Submitted To Minister by OAM4J: 5:29am On Sep 28, 2011
Commission submits gang-violation report to minister

Tuesday in Abuja said it had concluded investigation into the gang-violation of a female student.

It said the report had beensubmitted to the Minister of Youth Development, Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi.

The commission added that it met recently with the Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade (retd), and urged him to direct the police to investigate the matter.

A statement by the NHRC’s Director of Public Affairs and Communication, Mr. Muhammad Ladan, quoted the Acting Executive Secretary, Mrs. Oti Ovrawah, as welcoming the progress recorded in the investigation of the gang violation.

The commission also urged the police to “conclude their own investigations quickly and arraign the suspects before a court of competent jurisdiction.”

It called for adequate police protection and a comprehensive medical examination of the victim, whom, it claimed, would have been exposed to sexually transmittable diseases and unwanted pregnancy.

The NHRC said, “Police protection and medical care for the victim as well as diligent prosecution of the suspects are critical issues to be addressed at this point. The gang violation is cruel, dehumanising and unacceptable. It is a primitive act of violence against womanhood and those involved in this dastardly and beastly act should be made to give a full account of their action.”

The NHRC also flayed the initial dismissive approach by the relevant authorities in the matter without a thorough investigation, describing it as “embarrassing.”

Meanwhile, a human rights lawyer, Mr. Jiti Ogunye, on Monday urged the Abia State Government to ensure that the men who violated the student were brought to book.

Ogunye, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, noted that the government held it as a duty to Nigerians to ensure that justice was done in the matter.

He said, ‘‘Abia State has been a bastion of all sorts of criminality where kidnapping and demand for ransom take place. But the government in the state has to assure Nigerians and the international community that the state is not where anything can happen. It will be a hard sell to say the people (rapists) could not be arrested.”

He added that the police had enough clues to apprehend the suspects based on their names or aliases as obtained from the video and the photographs posted on the Internet.

According to him, the police should commence a full scale investigation into the matter.

Ogunye said the victim, when identified, should be greatly consoled for, according to him, she had been psychologically bruised.

‘‘She can be moved from the university to another place or sponsored abroad to continue her education. Otherwise, she cannot live normally in that state. There must be justice for her and the society at large,’’ he said.

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Re: Reports On ABSU Gang-Violation Submitted To Minister by Nobody: 5:32am On Sep 28, 2011
Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade

a human rights lawyer, Mr. Jiti Ogunye,

Minister of Youth Development, Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi.

Acting Executive Secretary, Mrs. Oti Ovrawah,


It boils down to these four guardians to do sth about the state of gang- rap es in Abia. I hope they succeed.

Then UniBen is next.
Re: Reports On ABSU Gang-Violation Submitted To Minister by Fidelo726: 8:52am On Sep 28, 2011
And I hope more victims of such dishumanizing act should come out and report such to the relevant authorities.
And I also hope that the police should act responsibly when such case is brought before then instead of accusing the victim of collaboration.

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