Veteran Nollywood actress Victoria Inyama has a word of advice for Nigerian women. To avoid getting r*ped, the actress has charged women to dress decently and properly.
The mother of three made the call in a video posted to her Instagram page on July 31st. According to her, the Nigerian government is not ready to attach severity to the crime of r*pe in the country. Thus, women should protect themselves by dressing decently to evade being r*ped.
“Appropriate Dressing & Comportment. It’s obvious to me that the Nigerian government is not really ready to put a fixed penalty to R*pe. And so l beg my ladies (minus the minors or aged victims) to plsssss dress in appropriate clothing so as to reduce the trigger for the perpetrators,” she wrote.
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Victoria Inyama also added that some r*pe perpetrators are mentally sick. Because of this ailment, some sorts of clothing could trigger them into r*ping people.
“A lot of these Perpetrators have underlying mental health issues & being around them in certain clothing is a trigger…..sadly the victim still gets to be shamed & ridiculed, so since this government is not ready to do much, it would be wise to safeguard yourself.”
Yes, it’s not about the dressing some will say & compare with Europe & America but remember they take R*pe cases seriously unlike Nigerian…..Think about it #notorape #notodomesticviolence“.
She later added a post of Elisha Abbo, the Adamawa senator who assaulted a woman in a s*x toy shop and how the case was struck out of court to further buttress her point.
This is coming after a series of r*pe cases have been reported in the country, even from well-known celebrities. DMW singer Peruzzi was accused of r*ping a girl which he promptly denied. We recently saw how the saga of D’banj and Seyitan, the girl who accused him of r*ping her in 2018 unfolded.
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