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Lockdown escalated the number of rape cases – Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen

Lockdown escalated the number of rape cases - Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen

Pauline Tallen, Nigeria’s Minister of Women Affairs, has attributed the spike in the number of rape cases to the lockdown.

Tallen said this to state house correspondents on Wednesday, June 10
after the Federal Executive Council meeting where she brought up the
rape pandemic in the country.

She disclosed that an action plan which would involve the judiciary
and the media, is being put in place to tackle the rape menace.

“There has been an outcry against rape epidemic because of the
lockdown. I know we have always had rape in this country but with the
lockdown of people in homes because of COVID-19, women and children are
locked down with their abusers. The number has escalated three times of
what we had seen. There is no state with an exception. The number has
reached alarming rate.

We are calling for legal intervention. From details that we have,
there are hundreds of cases that are within our courts that have not
been addressed and out of each one case, be sure that there are 10 that
have not been reported.

Because of this, we call for media campaign and aggressive public
enlightenment. We want people to rise and speak up against abuse of
minors and rape cases. We also call for intervention of the judiciary
for prompt dispensation of justice and police to ensure that rape cases
are not treated with levity or wished away when reported.

These were the issues brought before council, and I am glad to
announce that we got a full support of Mr. President and all members of
council that government will take decisive action at the highest level
to protect women and children in this country” she said

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