The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has condemned in the strongest terms the alleged sexual assaults on women during a recent festival in Ozoro, describing the incident as a national disgrace and a violation of fundamental human rights.
In a statement signed by NBA President, Mazi Afam Osigwe, and Chairperson of the NBA Women Forum, Huwaila Muhammad, the association described reports of women being chased, stripped, groped, and publicly humiliated as “horrifying” and “barbaric.”
The NBA emphasized that such acts, carried out under the guise of cultural celebration, amount to criminal offenses including assault, sexual violence, and public indecency.
They also violate the constitutional rights to dignity, personal liberty, and security of the human person, as well as international human rights standards.
The NBA statement continued that no tradition, custom, so-called cultural practice can excuse or legitimise the degradation and violation of women stressing that any practice that permits such cruelty is not culture but criminality.
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