Rape is a state, not a family problem in Nigeria. This is what the police told me when I visited the Family Support Unit building at the Sango Ota Area Police Command in Ogun State on Friday October 16 this year.
Of course, I know this to be true. But, in Nigeria, with around 80 million of the estimated 203 million people living below the poverty line and all kinds of cultures and customs, how many people know this? Your guest is as good as mine.
The truth is, rapists seem to be sweeping every state in our beloved country and the police are strangled, ill-equipped, underfunded, and poorly motivated by the federal government to address rape, displacement, child abuse, violence. sexual, head over heels.
In Ogun state, for example, in June this year, Dapo Abiodun, the state governor, told the world that his state will be ruthless with rape cases.
Abiodun dropped this good news when Bamidele Abiodun, his wife, led an anti-sexual and gender-based demonstration that led to his office at Oke Mosan in Abeokuta, Ogun state.
The governor assured that cases related to violence and rape could be expedited by the prosecution team and criminals could be brought to account.
Five months later, Monday Agbonikan, a police deputy commissioner and commander of the sango ota police command with permission, support and approval from Edward Awolowo Ajogun, the state police commissioner, has erected a family support unit building for the police under adding up. .
The building, according to my findings, is 80% functional and Bamidele Abiodun, wife of Dapo Dapo Abiodun, governor of the state. Kabiyesi from Sango Ota, as well as the president of the local government area of Ado-Ota, have supported the project.
It is scheduled to be officially commissioned in October this year, even as the police have begun work on the serious matter of cleaning Sango Ota of rapists and other criminals.
Also speaking, Yemisi Alli-Yaunaduo, officer in charge said in the last month, a man, who raped a 6-year-old girl and the girl’s father tried to bury the case under the pretext of being a family. Problem, he is now chilling his feet in one of the state’s correctional facilities.
Justice was also served in some rape cases in which the victims were traced to Ijebu Ode, Akute, Ifo, Lagos, etc.
The Sango FSU police command has a well-equipped interrogation room, reception, offices, amenities, marked toys, etc.
The truth is that the cops attached to the unit are spending their money on logistics and welfare for the victims and suspects for now. Therefore, non-governmental organizations, as well as others with a public spirit, must come to the aid of the police at the Sango Ota command with vehicles, financial support and others to get the job done.