Thread by @BukkyShonibare

#JusticeForOchanya

1. Getting justice for victims and survivors of rape in Nigeria remain problematic. Even in the face of explicit, undeniable, and admissible evidence, issues bordering on "technicalities" are used as excuses to frustrate justice.

We must all be worried...

2)... about today's concurrent judgments at the Federal High Court (Makurdi) on the civil case of negligence brought against Mrs. Felicia Ogbuja, and that of the Benue State High Court on the criminal case of rape against Mr. Andrew Ogbuja and his...

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3) ...his fugitive son, Victor Ogbuja.

We'd fail previous and upcoming generations if we, as a society, allow Ochanya Ogbanje's case go without the justice she truly deserves. We must not be a people that easily moves on after the initial dust of shock...

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4) ...settles and the usual #JusticeFor hashtags fissle into abyss of seeming inertia.

The prove of our public outbursts when violations of human rights happen, especially such that affects the poor and vulnerable, should be - must be - RESULT. That...

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5) ...result is JUSTICE. And, justice can only be gotten when we follow through - doggedly - till the end, regardless of whose ox is gored.

Let Ochanya's face be etched on our hearts. She was only 13 years old when she died in October 2018 from...

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6) ...complications arising from the serial rape she endured in the hands of a father and his son. The least we owe Ochanya is justice! Let's speak her name and raise our voices for her - in corners and on the high tables. Because to let this slide without...

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7) ...a fight and victory would, in itself, be injustice.

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