Nollywood actress and mum-of-one, Uche Ogbodo has spoken in light of the recent arrest and alleged sexual molestation of some women who were rounded up by officers of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) in Abuja. According to reports, about 70 women were rounded up during a raid on night clubs and the officers alleged that the women were prostitutes and therefore plying an illegal trade.
There’s been a lot of public outcry since the news went viral, especially that the women tagged prostitutes were raped without pity or proper protection because they were deemed to have no dignity as prostitutes and therefore deserved no rights to consent.
As the outcry against the brazen abuse of the rights of the women heightened, popular Nollywood comic actor, Bishop umoh, aka Okon Lagos took a rather insensitive side, arguing that prostitutes have no dignity and therefore cannot be said to be raped. Read here.
Now actress Uche Ogbodo has bought into the public discourse with yet another unpopular stance in favour of prostitution. She in her post has questioned why prostitution has not being legalised in Nigeria while decrying the plight of the sex workers.
She is expected to receive a lot of backlash for this one.
Read her full Instagram post on the subject below:
This News is really rather Unsettling for me! , I’m Hurt deep down , thinking Of the pain these Prostitutes go through in the hands of the General Public! This brings me to Ask, “Ain’t these Prostitutes HUMANS too?
Why do we Derive joy in seeing other people go through Anguish and Pain! , this whole world is gradually turning into a Real Life Animal Jungle!
So then, why did we make “LAWS” ain’t this laws there to protect Us, to make Us Superior to lesser Animals?
But at the End we are proving ourselves not better in anyway! WE ARE ALL ANIMALS like goats, sheep,lions, chickens etc cos we have lost our Sense of Humanity!.????,.. WHY DEPRIVE A HUMAN PROSTITUTE HER RIGHT TO LIVE? . PROSTITUTE NAH PERSON MAMA, ABEG! PROSTITUTE NAH PERSON PIKIN ,ABEG!. . PROSTITUTE NAH PERSON PAPA,ABEG!. PROSTITUTE NAH PERSON SISTER, BROTHER ABEG!. PROSTITUTES ARE MAJORLY AFTERMATH OF RAPE, ABEG!. Say NO, to Rape! . Those police officers must answer to their CRIME, or I might go into DEPRESSION!.
