The operations were carried out by agents of the Federal Capital Territory Administration Joint Task Team, which is comprised of the Department of Development Control, Abuja Environmental Protection Board and the Social Development Secretariat .
“The agents appeared to be specifically targeting women – while no male guests were arrested or harassed. In fact, several female guests in and around the night club were also targeted and harassed. Women were brutally dragged out by male officers who beat them, and some women were stripped naked. “Nigeria is signatory to many international and regional human rights treaties including the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women ; and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa , which protects the human rights of women to dignity, equality, liberty and freedom from violence.
“In October 2017, the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in the Dorothy Njemanze & 3 Ors v. the Federal Republic of Nigeria, pronounced that the act of targeting women and harassing them by the Abuja Environmental Protection Board and other state security agents constituted gender based discriminatory treatment, torture, cruel inhuman and degrading treatment.
“We call on the government to account for the wellbeing and bodily integrity of all the women for the period they have been held in detention by the state. We call on the government to release the women immediately and unconditionally from this unlawful and discriminatory detention and from the proposed “forced” three months arbitrary rehabilitation at the FCT rehabilitation centre in Lugbe, Abuja, which would further violate these women’s rights to equality, dignity and liberty.
Reacting, the acting Secretary of the Social Development Secretariat, Hajiya Safiya Umar, told DAILY POST on Wednesday that the allegation of assault, theft and rape were untrue.
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