75% of rape cases I’ve handled involve religious leaders – Popular Actress Foluke Daramola says

The issue of rape has been around in Nigeria for so long but it it stayed low key.

It came back as something very bad when a 21-year old girl called Uwa was raped and killed.

Many other rape issues have surfaced after then and even the Nigerian police has been idle.

Peruzzi amongst others has been accused of rape issues and many other celebrities as well.

What about Dbanj? He also was accused of rape just of recent and he has been silent about it.

A very popular Nollywood actress has voiced out about the rape cases she has handled.

“75% of the cases I have on my table are from religious leaders, and a lot of time,”

“We don’t get to the end of it, because when we start, the family would come

And tell us we should leave the religious leader to God”. She says.

“Nothing attracts rape, it is a sign of weakness. Why do they rape minors, teenagers, and even old women, is that also about indecent dressing?”

“You hardly find rape cases against young women except for sexual assaults and abuse in workplaces,”

“we find it mostly amongst kids, teenagers, and elderly women, how come you are now telling me it is indecent dressing?

And we are not animals.”

Check out her full story of how she says her rape cases are mostly from religious leaders below.

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75% of rape cases I’ve handled involve religious leaders – Foluke Daramola-Salako . . Nollywood Actress and founder of Passion Against Rape and Abuse Africa, PARAA, Foluke Daramola-Salako, during her conversation with Funmi Iyanda on Public Eye Live on Friday revealed that 75 per cent of the perpetrators of the rape cases handled by her NGO are religious leaders. . . “75% of the cases I have on my table are from religious leaders, and a lot of time, we don’t get to the end of it, because when we start, the family would come and tell us we should leave the religious leader to God.” . . Addressing the common ideology that indecent dressing is the cause for the rampant cases of rape in Nigeria; she said, “Nothing attracts rape, it is a sign of weakness. Why do they rape minors, teenagers, and even old women, is that also about indecent dressing?” “You hardly find rape cases against young women except for sexual assaults and abuse in workplaces, we find it mostly amongst kids, teenagers, and elderly women, how come you are now telling me it is indecent dressing? And we are not animals.” . . Speaking on the role of Nollywood in the activism against rape and abuse, she says, “The role of Nollywood is for us to create more awareness programs, have more movies that are preaching the negativity of rape and abuse, the reason it can happen to anybody, and the reason under no circumstances should any rapist be made to look like a good person.” . . Supported by MacArthur Foundation, Public Eye Live with Funmi Iyanda airs 8 PM every Friday at Instagram Live. . . Credit: Premium Times

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