NASS, Presidency Not Committed To Fight Against Rape – HURIWA
BY GRACE ANYANWU, ABUJA – Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has expressed doubt over the commitment of the National Assembly to the fight against sexual violations of youngsters by rapists unleashing venomous attacks on young girls and boys all around the country.
HURIWA also urged the Presidency to stop what it described as “public show and the media showmanship” over the cases of rape and sexual attacks against younger persons in the country.
The Human Rights group said that it is apprehensive that all the noises emanating from Abuja about the issue of combating RAPE and sexual attacks against younger persons by mostly men, are just cosmetic and artificial wailing of pretenders who simply wait for the mass of the citizens to stop talking about the rape cases in the social media and then the country returns to the business as usual default format that it has been for over 60 years.
A statement by the National Coordinator of HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko said the National Assembly has the “knife and yam” thus should stop crying wolf and address the issue squarely.
Onwubiko said; “They are the legislators who can look at all the laws relating to sexual offences and then fundamentally reform the archaic legal framework to bring it in tandem with the demands of the 21st century compliant Nigerian nation.”
“If you are in government, your responsibility is to maintain law and order and punish offenders and not to cry like little babies when the system seems to have failed our children by not protecting them from murderous rapists.
“The Presidency runs the Police which has failed to prosecute sexual violators. The Presidency is where the Federal Attorney General and minister of justice works. Law Reform Commission is located in the Presidency and so why is the Federal Government not seen activating measures to strengthen the laws against rapists so as to introduce strong enough sanctions and legal penalties that would serve as deterrence to the violent rapists who are running riots all over the Country?”
