CEASE AND DESIST! STOP HARASSMENT OF WOMEN IN NIGERIA
30 April 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE We the undersigned Women’s Organizations, Activists, Scholars, Civil Society and Human Rights Organisations in Nigeria, strongly condemn the recent raids, public humiliation , assault and sexual harassment and of over 100 women in Abuja by the agents of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Joint Task Team, which is comprised of the Department of Development Control, Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) and the Social Development Secretariat (SDS). These agents raided the “Caramelo night club” and other clubs on two different occasions within one week in Abuja (17 th and 26 th April). During the raids, they arrested several women, who reported that they had been sexually assaulted and sexually harassed, some who were raped. The assaults left injuries in the vaginas of some of the arrested women and many were psychologically traumatised by the experience. It appears that the FCTA joint task team had unilaterally, a...