Physically challenged accuse security operatives of rape.
physically challenge aged woman has accused security operatives of raping five persons living with disabilities during the incessant Jos crisis.A blind, who is also a retired civil servant with Plateau state government, Mrs. Ruth Joseph Moven, said five persons living with disabilities were returning from Abuja to Jos during the peak of Jos crisis and unknown to them, the state was in chaos, getting to a place called Anglo-Jos in the city center, they ran into security operative and instead of getting help from them, they held them till midnit insisting that it was dangerous to proceed to town and thereby ended up raping the five physically challenged ladies.Mrs. Moven stated this during a one day Content Development Workshop, with Persons Living with Disabilities, tagged Strengthening Citizens Engagement in Electoral Processes In Nigeria.Lamenting the situation, she said if notching is done to protect the disabled, there will be low response of the physically challenged during the 2019 election and the yet to be announced date of the Plateau State Local Government elections.Moven call on government at all levels to create awareness on how to assist the disabled during crisis and elections.Responding, the representative of the Police Commissioner, Plateau state command, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Adedoke Rufus, said harassment of the disabled by security operatives is an isolated case, saying that there are security agents with such tendencies as not all humans reason normally, adding that the force is doing all that it could to bring cases such as this to book.However, the one day workshop seeks to strengthen the engagement of people living with disabilities in the electoral process and to develop a draft charter that would also seek to address their challenges aimed at making the electoral system all inclusive and to deepen Nigeria’s democratic credentials, says Mr. Nelson Ananze, Acting Director, Community Action for Popular Participation.
