Preventing another Uwa and Barakat’s tragedy

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By Oludayo Tade



TRIBAL rapists in the past two weeks have competed to out-perform one another in their sinister career of not only having unlawful carnal knowledge but also gruesomely eliminating two of their victims from mother earth and plunging their immediate families and national community into mourning mood and actively seeking justice.

These organised criminals unleashed violence on promising teenagers and terminated their dreams of becoming successful while turning two decades of parental investments into losses of monumental proportion. Away from COVID-19 pandemic and its associated complexities, sadness envelopes the national space as promising young girls were eliminated unjustly by ‘familiar foes’.

This has been our experience from May 27 in Edo State, where the life ambition of 22-year-old Uwaila Omozuwa was made unrealisable by a gang of rapists and murderers; to the Pacesetter state where Barakat Bello (18 years), suffered similar fate in her house on June 1, 2020; to Ajah in Lagos State where a 12-year-old girl was gang-raped by four masked men; and not forgetting, the 11-men arrested in Jigawa State for serially raping another 12-year-old girl!

The experiences of girl breadwinners raped while hawking pawpaw and sachet water on the street of Ekiti and Ogun states show how the public and private spaces have become deadly for the girl-child. Note that many rape cases go unreported, while those reported may also not have entered police records. We are now confronted with motivated sexual predators in the absence of effective social control mechanism.

Rape is one of the sub-topics of our contemporary social problems, crime and delinquency; and deviance, deviation and society courses at undergraduate and graduate levels at the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan handled by the Criminology unit. In this intervention, I examine contextual factors which accounted for the incidences.

I also share insights from our study on rape in Nigeria to assist law enforcement agencies in their investigation and guide parents on who not to trust with their children. I argue against death sentence for rapists being advocated in certain quarters and in its place, push for diligent prosecution and timely administration of justice in rape cases. To me, this holds the key to reduce the menace and strengthen the silent voices of other victims to speak.


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https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/06/preventing-another-uwa-and-barakats-tragedy/


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