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:
I'm angry. Nigerian women. Quote this with a story of how you were publicly harassed and nobody defended you
— Binju Shinjitsu (@UPNEPA) November 24, 2016
reactions other women have when women get sexually harassed is what hurts me the most
— Binju Shinjitsu (@UPNEPA) November 24, 2016
Some keke guy grabbed Denike's butt and when she hit him the women talked about home training and he's old
— Binju Shinjitsu (@UPNEPA) November 24, 2016
You would think they would show support being women folk but no oh, they'll define excuses for the perpetrator
— Binju Shinjitsu (@UPNEPA) November 24, 2016
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
not just touching people. It's the obsession with sex. Even when a girl is walking with a boy, they'd describe both of you in bed.
— Adadioramma, LSP/PYT (@Adaoraaa) November 24, 2016
OMG @denikhe do you remember when I was buying combs and one guy said something about Fucking something and I told him Fuck You
— Binju Shinjitsu (@UPNEPA) November 24, 2016
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
was leaving vapors one night and some random guy goes 'I'm the one that can fuck your type'
— Temisan (@tatu_84) November 24, 2016
and the alhajis whose wives can't be seen have the nerve to also join in random touching.
— Adadioramma, LSP/PYT (@Adaoraaa) November 24, 2016
An Igbo man grabbed my ass in the market and people blamed it on me for wearing shorts. I was just 10 https://t.co/7eDAXsx3fI
— R (@reggssO_) November 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/Channah__/status/801869031678603264
Those yaba boys are something else. Now I just start yelling "madam I get jeans, correct one" at the girl I'm walking with so they'll leave. https://t.co/QJFBp9cIgq
— Lamide A. (@_lamide_) November 24, 2016
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
— àgbálùmó (@xvithemachine) 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
— Tolusina (@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
— Tolusina (@t_olusina) November 24, 2016
that's so sad, sorry about that. But God knows I'd grab it and almost pull it off his body, useless man.
— Ifeoluwa (@AIfeoluwa_) November 24, 2016
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
— Tolusina (@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
— Somms (@Somms_N) November 24, 2016
Passing through yaba market one time & one guy grabbed my hand and said "you go easy to fuck from back" https://t.co/mL67rYIcvF
— A for Penguin (@azxka__) November 24, 2016
Even those smelly Hausa men changing gold or whatever. They're part of it https://t.co/tilCgLdwGP
— ibukun (@ibuksbae) November 24, 2016
@UPNEPA They won't allow other man touch their wives. Even look at them. But they can be sexually assaulting other women verbally
— ibukun (@ibuksbae) November 24, 2016
Was in Yaba. Guy grabs me and starts telling me that he knows I'm "tight" and the way I'm walking fast shows that I want it. https://t.co/FglHoaFKDF
— ibukun (@ibuksbae) November 24, 2016
Walking back home from high school "wearing a uniform" one okada man was following me and saying very obscene things he wanted to do to me? https://t.co/EPjxlMjyZX
— Onyinye Ukeje (@lylyyann) November 24, 2016
Balogun Market. Guy grabs my arm. I pull away and he says, "Who want touch you sef? Ashewo." https://t.co/83XN9yKUVi
— (Déjà vu). (@iamibiene) November 24, 2016
One unfortunate boy in school kept trying to hug me by force even after I told him to fuck off. When I hit him, I was the bad person ?. https://t.co/cr5Awn7mqw
— lady legasus. ? (@Tamilore__) November 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/ToniaNwanya/status/801881851401043968
https://twitter.com/ToniaNwanya/status/801882349357113349
https://twitter.com/ToniaNwanya/status/801882891676512256
Yaba market menace
Okay. We have a massive Yaba market men problem
— Binju Shinjitsu (@UPNEPA) November 24, 2016
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
— Tolusina (@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
we can write letter to local government, market women leaders, somebody, anybody
— Binju Shinjitsu (@UPNEPA) November 24, 2016
Nigerian women really go through unspeakable harassment in public spaces. It really is incredible.
— The Runner (@je_mc2) November 24, 2016
Nigerian Men. We need to do better need to do better need to do better X10000000
— Binju Shinjitsu (@UPNEPA) November 24, 2016
It’s not that hard, really.
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