3rd June, 2020
By Oluwatope Lawanson/Lagos
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Wednesday joined the clamour for justice and an end to gender-based violence and abuse in the country.
“Enough is enough’’, tweeted the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He is the latest of the political heavyweights to back the campaigns to protect women.
President Buhari and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar had similarly spoken.
The APC leader described the acts of violence against women and young girls as “inexcusable” and ‘indefensible’.
“For far too long women and young girls in our nation have suffered the pain, hurt and stigma of gender-based violence and abuse.
“Too many have been hurt, intimidated and bullied.
“Too many have died; violence is inexcusable,’’ he said.
According to him, we are all born of woman and nurtured by woman.
“Vera Uwaila Omozuwa is the most recent name on a list, far too long, of women who have lost their lives at the hands of these vile criminals.
“Today, I rise in solidarity with women in Nigeria to say #enoughisenough’’, Tinubu said.
He tweeted the hashtags: “#JusticeforUwa, #JusticeforJennifer #JusticeforTina, #JUSTICE for all victims of gender based violence.”
On May 28, the 22-year-old student of the University of Benin, Uwaila Vera Omozuwa was raped and murdered in a church in the town.
Similarly, an 18-year-old girl, identified as Jennifer, was gang-raped by five boys reported to be her friends in Kaduna state-
The incident happened in Narayi, a community in Kaduna South Local Government Area.
The boys were said to have carried out the action on the teenager after giving her a liquid, said to be a mixture of alcohol and drugs.
Also, a trigger-happy policeman on May 27 killed a 16-year-old teenager, Tina Ezekwe at Iyana-Oworo bus-stop in Lagos.
The policeman was said to have fatally shot the girl while attempting to arrest a bus driver.
The driver was alleged to have violated the nationwide curfew imposed by the Federal Government to check the spread of COVID-19.