Adewumi Ademiju, Ado -Ekiti
Fayemi ordered the investigation, following social
media information, which had gone viral. The information claimed that a woman,
who took up bricklaying job, so as to feed her children and drunken husband,
was raped by her male colleagues as a means of punishment because she refused
to go on errand for them.
The social media information reads: “At 7am, this
happened in Ilejemeje, Ekiti, woman takes up bricklaying job so she can feed
her kids, husband is a drunk. Her fellow male bricklayers began sending her on
errands to buy food. She refused yesterday and they decided to punish her today
by raping her.”
It was further gathered that the woman at the centre
of the storm is a mother of three children.
The governor gave the directive yesterday during an inauguration
of members of Committee set up by the State government to fight Gender
Violence and protect the Child Rights Act. Fayemi lamented over the alarming
rate of gender violence. While giving the directive, Fayemi said that he was
sure that the police would carry out thorough investigation and bring the
perpetrators to book.
The governor noted that gender based
violence has become pandemic in the country, to the extent that one out
of every five women must have been raped or abused.
He said: “We must all work together to fight this. We
just learnt that a woman was violently molested at Iludun Ekiti in
Ilejemeje Local Government Area. I have asked the police to
investigate whoever was responsible and bring the culprit to book"
No comments:
Post a Comment