Gender violence: FG orders diligent investigation of student's rape
*Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
(Nigeria) The Federal Government has directed the police to unravel
the circumstances surrounding the gang-rape and murder of a female student of
the University of Benin, Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, in Benin and the serial sexual
abuse of a minor in Jigawa State by 14 men, with a view to bringing the
perpetrators to justice.
In a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of
Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said that by bringing the
perpetrators of the heinous crimes to justice, the Federal Government will be
serving a strong notice of its total aversion to gender-based violence in
whatever form.
The Minister described the gang-rape and murder of Miss
Omozuwa in Edo State as a cruel and barbaric act that offends human
sensibility, in addition to being antithetical to decency, saying no society
will tolerate such depravity.
He also said the serial sexual abuse of a minor by 14 men in
Jigawa State is not only repulsive but highly condemnable.
''It is said that the true measure of a society can be found
in how it treats its most vulnerable members,'' Alhaji Mohammed noted, assuring
that the Federal Government will do everything possible to stem the growing
tide of gender-based violence in the country.
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