Amnesty International Nigeria Supporters
Group in Osun State has called on
stakeholders to work towards ending the rising
cases of femicide in the country.
The Osun State Coordinator of the Group,
Joshua Oyebode, made this known on
Saturday while speaking during a street
awareness and walk organised to
commemorate International Women’s Day.
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Participants in the walk, dressed in black T-
shirts with the inscription ‘Stop Femicide’ had
converged on Old Garage, Osogbo and moved
through MDS Road before terminating the
awareness campaign at Olaiya Area of the
Osun State capital.
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Oyebode, who noted the increasingly hostile
environment women in the country have had
to contend with, said that in 2024 alone, about
149 women were murdered in Nigeria.
He also said the walk was meant to create
awareness about the social menace of
femicide, adding that the time has come for all
stakeholders to rise to the occasion and stop
the indiscriminate killing of women.
“So, what we are doing today is to build the
consciousness of the people on the street
about what femicide is and their individual
and collective role in tackling the menace of
femicide,” Oyebode said.
Offering advice to the government regarding
roles it is expected to play to eradicate
femicide and other forms of violence against
women, Oyebode further said, “Although,
Nigeria has extant legislation to the effect that
sexual violence should be punished.
We have
the Violence Against Persons Prohibi
tion Act,
the Nigerian Criminal Code and the
Constitution, which in section 33 guarantees
the right to life of every citizen.
“
But we have to look beyond the laws
themselves. We have to look at the
implementation of this law. Admittedly,
Nigeria has had an age-long problem of
implementation of laws. So, we have to look
inward to the existing laws we have to make
sure they are more effective in implemention.”
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