A group, Women Arise for Change Initiative, led by Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, on Monday, stormed Lagos State House of Assembly protesting an alleged brutality of two women by some men in Ejigbo area of the state.
The group came with various placards and armed with a petition, entitled “Dehumanisation of two women in Ejigbo, Lagos State” and addressed to the Speaker, Hon Adeyemi Ikuforiji,
President of the group, Okei-Odumakin, who also heads Campaign for Democracy, alleged that the women were sometime this year subjected to one of the most vicious forms of human rights abuses and the unspeakable horrors of brutality by certain depraved and savage men.
The group cited in its petition that there was outrage across the nation and around the world when video shots of the victims stripped naked, and being mercilessly beaten with pepper and strange objects went viral.
The protesters, however, noted sadly that though the Chairman, Ejigbo Local Council Development Authority (LCDA), Kehinde Bamigbetan, acknowledged that the said horror took place in his domain in February this year, yet he failed to outline the measures his office had taken since then to ensure that the perpetrators were punished.
“As Nigerians and fellow citizens of the world watched the horrific scenes, they wondered if these were shots taken in the dark ages of savagery and primitivism.
“Strangely enough, a statement this month by the Chairman of Ejigbo LCDA, Kehinde Bamigbetan, at the height of the furore, acknowledged that this unimaginable horror took place in his domain in February this year, and that the victims were a mother and step daughter accused of stealing pepper, and that the husband and father was a palm-wine tapper; but Bamigbetan’s statement, sadly to say, failed to outline the measures his office had taken since then to ensure that the perpetrators are punished.
Source: Tribune
