Martin Cole-
Nigerian police have arrested a man after 40 people were raped in one town in a one year period.
A mother in the northern town Dangora caught the man in her children’s bedroom, according to cops. The pervert ran away but neighbors gave chase and caught him, he added.
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The horrid news comes in the wake of a spate of rapes in the North, including an attack on an 80-year-old,and children as young as 10 years old. Rapes on unsuspecting Nigerian women is a problem in some parts of Nigeria where poverty is rife and assailants are uneducated without basic income and often also on drugs.
The Northern part of Nigeria is known to be one of the weakest in the country educationally, although the ruling government has often come from the North.
The North has its clever people, but the absence of opportunities for many of the inhabitants of one of the most religious parts of the country has led to extremism or horrific law breaking for many of those without clear purpose of direction.
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Recent wave of rapes and killing of women in Nigeria has sparked with thousands signing a petition and using the hashtag #WeAreTired.
Dangora is a small town in Kano state about 85 kilometres (55 miles) south-west of Kano city, making it difficult for police to access, reports the BBC’s Mansur Abubakar from Kano.
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Residents told the BBC that they had been petrified in fear, even in their own homes, because they heard a serial rapist had been climbing fences and raping women indoors.
Only recently , University student Uwavera Omozuwa was raped and killed in a church after her head was smashed with a fire extinguisher; a suspect has been arrested
In other atrocious cases of sexual assaults in Nigeria, Police made arrests after a 12-year-old girl was raped over two months in north-west Jigawa state; 11 arrests have been made
A 17-year-old girl was also gang-raped in south-west Ekiti state; two arrests have been made
If you have been affected by sexual abuse or violence in Nigeria, help and support is available at Naptip.
The results of a survey published by NOIPolls in July 2019 suggested that up to one in every three girls living in Nigeria could have experienced at least one form of sexual assault by the time they reach 25.
A lot more rape is believed to go unreported in Nigeria, especially in a country where evidence has to be really concrete to successfully bring charges against culprits.
Rape also goes unreported more amongst married couples, according to sources in Nigeria. Stigmatisation and a lack of trust in the judiciary system is one of the reasons for under reported rapes.
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