A 25-year-old girl in Abuja has revealed that she was raped by policemen who accosted her and found illicit drugs in her possession
Abigail, who is a resident in the FCT, recounted her
rape ordeal in the hands of policemen who she said were about to arrest
her after she admitted to the use of illicit drugs.
Abigail said she was rape after the policemen chose to have sex with her instead of arresting her.
“They forcefully climbed me to make love with me, so I was begging that
it will just be one person but they refused and took turns to have sex
with me, my body was violated,” Abigail recalled.
According to YouthRISE Nigeria, a Non-Governmental
organisation with support of Open Society Institute of West Africa
(OSIWA), Abigail’s case is just one out of the many cases of human right
abuse that young people who use drugs do experience in the hand of law
enforcement officers.
“Other cases include arbitrary and prolonged arrest, denial of access to
justice, extortion, being beaten, getting locked up without food for
days, sexual harassment, rape, forced rehabilitation and use of severe
torture to make people drug free.
The perpetrators of these abuse are not limited to law enforcement
officers but included family members, religious centres and many more,”
the NGO revealed their statement.
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