The First Lady made the call while speaking at the special prayers organized by the First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone Dr Fatima Madda Bio in honour of survivors of sexual exploitation, abuse and violence.

This was part of activities marking the United Nations Day of Prevention of, and Healing from Child Exploitation, Abuse and Violence.

“Women, speak up because your voice can help others”.

“When women stand together in freedom and speak their minds, they would remember that Fatima Madda Bio walked this path”.

Senator Oluremi Tinubu pointed out that the commemoration of the UN Day is not just a day of freedom for only Sierra Leone but Africa as a whole.

She commended the First Lady of Sierra Leone for the commitment, dedication and hard work she put into seeing that the day is a reality.

Earlier in her remarks, the host, Dr Fatima Madda Bio pointed out that abusing women and girls is cowardly and should be eliminated using all possible legal and legislative means.

“As First Lady, I do not work for politics, but humanity, to give our best and we want to be remembered as those who changed the narrative in Sierra Leone”.

The President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Julius Madda Bio assured that his country remains committed to eliminating all barriers being faced by girls and women so they can actualize their potentials.

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The defendant was arraigned on a charge of rape for having unlawful carnal of his child at Asaba on 31st May 2018, contrary to Section 218 of the Criminal Code Law of Delta State.

The prosecution led by the Director of Sexual Offences Unit, Ministry of Justice, Mrs P.U. Akamagwuna told the court that the defendant came home on a fateful day and demanded for sex from his wife. When his wife turned him down and left the house on an errand, the defendant forced himself on his four-year-old daughter.

He was caught in the act by a neighbour and fled the scene. The police subsequently arrested him. Defendant made a confessional statement which was tendered in court.

In his trial, defendant retracted the confessional statement and denied committing the offence.

Delivering judgement on Wednesday 1st February 2023, Honourable Justice Flora Ngozi Azinge held that the evidence of the four-year-old child and the witness, who caught him in the act, together with the defendant’s confessional statement, proved beyond reasonable doubt that he committed the offence.

Justice Azinge held that the defence raised in the confessional statement of the Defendant, to the effect that he lost all sense of reasoning after a native doctor laid hands on him and directed him to have sex with any woman he saw, was untenable and an afterthought.

Justice Flora described the defendant as a paedophile, whose conduct in raping his own daughter was callous, animalistic, barbaric and against the laws of God.She stated that society needed to be protected from persons like the defendant who prey on children.

The court thereafter sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment.

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Ondo State Police Command said Festus James allegedly raped a woman with eight months’ pregnancy under the pretext of performing spiritual deliverance for her, Daily Dates Nigeria reports.

The Police stated that the suspect committed the offence at Agbabu community in the Odigbo Local Government Area of the state.

The state Police Spokeswoman, Funmilayo Odunlami disclosed this while parading the suspect at the command headquarters in Akure, the state capital.

Odunlami said, “James from Ibadan in Oyo State went to Agbabu village via Ore, claimed to be a prophet and that the holy spirit directed him to have a three days holy ghost revival in a church in the village.

“The next day, the prophet claimed to have seen a vision concerning a 22-year-old lady who was eight months pregnant and told her to wait behind after the programme.

“He took the pregnant lady into one of the rooms in the mission house under the guise of delivering her from an evil spirit and had carnal knowledge of her. The suspect confessed to the crime.”

She noted that the suspect would soon be charged to court.

Although James admitted to having sex with the victim, he denied raping her.

He said, “I had sex with her truly, but it was not rape; I did not rape her. I always went there for revival. But honestly, I didn’t know what came over me that caused me to do that. It was the work of the devil.”

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