99 Days✅

Chapter 38 👑

Earlier this week since the news of the rape and murder case of Omozuwa broke out, women have been protesting in many ways. Not only women, some of the astute and responsible men that have sense have been helping in this case too. People all over are voicing their thoughts, letting their voice heard, speaking up.

As a woman, I need to talk about this too.

That inhumane act needs to stop.

Some men are like animals. How can you ruin someone's like just to satisfy your five minute desire? That desire of yours is what ruins that person's life. It scars them for eternity. How can you be that selfish?

And yet they have to guts to give excuses trying to justify their barbaric actions. She wasn't dressed appropriately, she is a prostitute, she has been throwing herself at me, she didn't say no, she didn't try to stop me, she has once irked me and I wanted revenge, it was the devils doing, I wasn't in my right sense at the moment, all that sort of pathetic excuses!

See, even if she is a prostitute, as long as she herself didn't throw herself at you, RAPE IS RAPE.

Honestly, try to put yourself in her shoes. Can you lie with the shame? The insecurity? The constant phobia? The never ending nightmares that'll be there for years to remind you of that moment you wish to forget forever.

RAPE IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF HUMAN ABUSE.

And the nauseating fact is that people rape women irrespective of age. Do you know that someone raped a three year old? A three year old for Allah's sake!? What sort of pleasure will you derive from raping innocent child that knows nothing? What is her crime? Did she throw herself at you? Did she irk you I some way? By Allah we all know there's no reason that will justify such repellent act.

She is just a baby!

A child unaware of the evils of this world.

Having no experience on how cruel the world can be, and you just taint her!

How will she live her life? She might just be a child that might not remember what happened but that will not change anything. It will not change the fact that you took her innocence away from her before she even know what it means to live a life like any other.

Someone raped a ten year old. Now how do you think she'll cope with the trauma that came with it? While her age mates are living the best of their life she's somewhere in the corner of her room all curled up into a ball bawling her eyes out, living with the constant fear that you'll come back with her. No matter how many years passed afterwards, no matter how her life turned to, that pain will always be there. But you know what? She hides it under fake smiles that never fail to fool most.

Even if the story is covered, how did you think she'll live with it even if no one knows? Because no matter what people say some people will judge her for something she has no fault over. People will judge her.

Some of these victims can't report this injustice to the law officials. You know why? Maybe they're not rich enough so they're afraid people might not believe them or they have no way of speaking up. They don't have a voice to speak up! They don't have the means to express their pain and ask for help. They have nothing! And then maybe when you finally gain a little bit of sense you'll say you regret your actions.

That won't change anything!

Did you have pity on her when you were stripping away her innocence?

Did you listen when she said no?

No means NO!

Did you pay any heed to her when she was screaming? Pleading with you to spare her life? To let her go and have mercy?