I’ve said this before: Nigerian streets are not safe -morning, noon or night. Lagos, Abuja, Calabar, wherever, the stories of sexual harassment women suffer daily have piled to the high heavens, and Nigerian women are angry. Very angry. Something must give, and change for good. Social media influencer, @UPNEPA, asked women on Twitter to tell their stories of harassment, with emphasis on instances where no one came to their rescue, and the floodgates opened.
And there’s the part where other women blame the victim, and not the perpetrator. Evil!
Do see below:
https://twitter.com/UPNEPA/status/801860572157513728
https://twitter.com/UPNEPA/status/801858031797600256
https://twitter.com/UPNEPA/status/801858201411002369
https://twitter.com/UPNEPA/status/801858349390331905
https://twitter.com/denikhe/status/801861701675188225
https://twitter.com/denikhe/status/801861813092679680
https://twitter.com/Fope_/status/801446704939696128
https://twitter.com/Fope_/status/801446947987062785
https://twitter.com/Fope_/status/801447259812622336
https://twitter.com/feline_eyes/status/801862998226849792
https://twitter.com/Adaoraaa/status/801891343706554368
https://twitter.com/UPNEPA/status/801891732111683584
I stopped going to Yaba market as one guy selling grabbed my ass because I won't stop to buy from me.
— Iyalaje of Balogun (@tolu_fakoya) November 24, 2016
and as I turned to react everyone shouted that they will slap me. I cried home that day. I had never been so humiliated in my life.
— Iyalaje of Balogun (@tolu_fakoya) November 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/tatu_84/status/801877269144866816
https://twitter.com/Adaoraaa/status/801891556097720321
https://twitter.com/reggssO_/status/801870583210328064
https://twitter.com/Channah__/status/801869031678603264
https://twitter.com/_lamide_/status/801872124893888512
A guy followed me from a bank on the lekki-epe expressway to the entrance of my estate because I refused to give him my number. https://t.co/bHrY8hZdBl
— cut your allowances you dickheads @ngrsenate (@ximachineux) November 24, 2016
1st and last day I ever entered a bus in Lag, grabbed my hand and said 'haa this one go sweet to fuck for bed oh' I literally started crying https://t.co/nG696N9T8Y
— Dr. Bush (@CH3OMA) November 24, 2016
At the market one time. Bent down to pick something on the floor. Dude just positioned his penis behind my ass. Wtf! https://t.co/kyvaaahFuk
— Tolulope (@t_olusina) November 24, 2016
Was so pissed. Got up expecting the market women to defend me. All I got was "Why you sef put nyash for road". https://t.co/kyvaaahFuk
— Tolulope (@t_olusina) November 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/_Asma_I/status/801882422052814848
Honestly I wanted to hit him so bad. But seems I was the one at fault, seeing that my "nyash was on the road ". https://t.co/2YFaFG6uc1
— Tolulope (@t_olusina) November 24, 2016
One time me, @t_olusina and 2 other friends had a guy follow us around for hours saying "I fit suck the 4 of you" https://t.co/gYxUqDu5DI
— Hephaestus (@Somms_N) November 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/azxka__/status/801887913306943489
https://twitter.com/ibuksbae/status/801886700192399360
https://twitter.com/ibuksbae/status/801886886427901952
https://twitter.com/ibuksbae/status/801882664273735681
https://twitter.com/lylyyann/status/801886715325583360
Balogun Market. Guy grabs my arm. I pull away and he says, "Who want touch you sef? Ashewo." https://t.co/83XN9yKUVi
— 20th of October 2020 (@ibienebidiaque) November 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/Tamilore__/status/801892477619802112
https://twitter.com/ToniaNwanya/status/801881851401043968
https://twitter.com/ToniaNwanya/status/801882349357113349
https://twitter.com/ToniaNwanya/status/801882891676512256
Yaba market menace
https://twitter.com/UPNEPA/status/801869229712674816
Yaba! I take a longer route nowadays. Not like you can completely avoid them cos they're all over the damn place. https://t.co/KOKEiVo774
— Tolulope (@t_olusina) November 24, 2016
sadly, it's not just the market men. A month ago, I was at yaba waiting for a friend to pick me up, some commercial motorcyclists…
— Mocha👸🏾 (@raychellered) November 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/Euphoria9ja/status/801888844706521088
https://twitter.com/denikhe/status/801862551323758592
https://twitter.com/UPNEPA/status/801889502079971328
Nigerian women really go through unspeakable harassment in public spaces. It really is incredible.
— Requirement Already Satisfied (@je_mc2) November 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/UPNEPA/status/801872347527577600
It’s not that hard, really.
