Anita Ekpo

I still remember when my colleague was kidnapped on her way home from work early this year. For two months, her parents ran from pillar to post, borrowing money and begging family and friends to help raise the ransom. When she finally came home, she narrated how they were gang-raped every morning and night. The kidnappers chose their victims and temporary married them to themselves celebrating, eating and drinking like it was a legal union. She said sometimes they shared one woman among two, three, or four men. Weeks after her release, she was found pregnant. That same week, we lost her to su!cide. The trauma was more than her heart could bear. And whenever I see people still supporting this government, I remember her. I remember her parents, I think of other victims that never made it to the media. How do you watch people suffer d!e like this and still defend a government that has failed to protect them? Are you human at all or just deliberately wicked?