Please let us stop the harassment of women In Abuja. For the apostles of " she was dressed indecently" dont wait till your Sister, friend, even mother is harassed for standing outside her house at 7pm or walking to the corner to buy provisions before we fight this.
I live in Abuja and I tell you, it is a major problem, my niece cant go on an errand for me after 7pm because they drive around like thugs and pick and molest young ladies. Some organisations have compiled a list of victims and are working with The Human Rights Commision to stop this nonesense. Seneator Bala Mohammed and his band have no Law backing this illegality. We are preparing to challenge them in court and the National Assembly, Join in on this fight, dont wait till it has happened to you please. Here is a Press Statement in support of the fight against this illegality, let us share and use the power of social media positively.
Moderators, I appeal to you to put this on the front page, it is very important
Thank you
The Nigerian Women’s Trust Fund
PRESS RELEASE

Nigerian Women’s Trust Fundand the National Human Rights Commission ask FG to end the war against women in Abuja

Abuja, Nigeria The NigerianWomen’s Trust Fund(WF) and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) have formally written to leading officials of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) to ask them to stop the war that is currently being waged against women in Abuja by the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB).

For over a year unidentified armed men under the authority of the AEPB have brutalised women in Abuja on the pretext of ‘eradicating commercial sex workers in Abuja’. Law students attending mandatory Law School dinners, employees of Airtel attending a birthday party, a banker exiting a shopping mall, people sitting inside or exiting their cars, and even women standing in front of offices or residences at all hours of the evening have been forcibly abducted and taken to purported installations of law enforcement such as the Area 10 Sports Complex. There, the women either buy their freedom or are tortured into ‘confessing’ and forcibly transferred to an alleged rehabilitation camp for purported sex workers maintained by the Society Against Prostitution and Child Labour in Nigeria (SAPCLN) in Arco Estate, SabonLugbe.

There is no legal basis or justification for the actions of these personnel of the AEPB (with support from the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigerian Army)– not in the AEPB Act of 1997 nor in the Penal Code which applies in the FCT. This conduct constitutes arbitrary and grossly unlawful invasions of the integrity of the Nigerian woman – denying these women their fundamental and constitutionally guaranteed rights under Sections 35, 41 and 42 of the 1999 Constitution.

The actions of the AEPB egregiously violate the values of equal citizenship on which our country is founded. Above all, they are also acts of calculated outrage on the reputation and dignity of the affected women that cannot be supported by any responsible institution of government. The WF and the NHRC call on every Nigerian of conscience and all civil society organizations to raise their voices to call for justice for the victims of the AEPB and an immediate end to the war against women in Abuja.

Ayisha Osori
Chief Executive Officer
The Nigerian Women’s Trust Fund

Hmmm its about time

Nigerian Women’s Trust Fund

c/o 14 Oguda close
Off Lake Chad crescent
Off IBB Boulevard
Maitama
Abuja
FCT
Nigeria

mabazie-humphrey@nigerianwomentrustfund.org
07029147571

Only Abuja?
Women are 'fair game' all over Nigeria o!

Callotti: Only Abuja?
Women are 'fair game' all over Nigeria o!

You talk like this and you are a woman yourself? Shame on you.

manmustwac: You talk like this and you are a woman yourself? Shame on you.

You know?
I am quite 'smitten' by your comprehension prowess around NL.
You are waaaaaaaaaaaaay too tired to even read and understand 2 simple lines in any given post.
Moderating a 'mere' religious section for spiritual 'dAnder-heads' can be quite challenging.
You are forgiven.
Nor be ya fault!

@ op,direct all your complaints/petitions to the chairman of the senate House Committee on Women's Affairs/youth development.It is the duty of the chairman of this committee to defend the interest/rights of the female folks in this country.

Ki olorun s'aanu wa ni Orilede yi ni o, abi kini gbogbo jati jati yi gan na? Oshisko.

I've heard a story of a young lady who after paying for a night bus, abuja to lagos, strolled to get suya from a mallam within the bus terminal only to be "arrested" by the over zealous agents .she showed them her bus ticket, screamed and got the attention of other passengers who came and identified her yet she was taken away and detained .her dad travelled from lagos to bail her 3 days later.

Ridiculous, unbelievable but very true.

Over zealous touts

Why don't they ever come to the Capital Bar at the Hilton, instead they keep harassing innocent pedestrians.