PREMIUM TIMES reports on a rising trend of rape in Kano, the obstacles to justice for victims and the efforts being made by state and non-state actors to check the menace.
PREMIUM TIMES reports on a rising trend of rape in Kano , the obstacles to justice for victims and the efforts being made by state and non-state actors to check the menace. Asiya (real name withheld) was nine years old when she was raped by a 20-year-old man last year in Nassarawa Local Government Area of Kano State. The rapist, Kamilu, was well known to the little girl as a frequent visitor to her parents’ house. “I know him.
He used to come and collect food from my mummy and he always called me to give me sweets and money,” Asiya told this reporter in the presence of her mothe
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