Absu Gang violation - The violation Is In The Viewing

THIS IS TRULY NIGERIAN..GOOD PEOPLE, GREAT NATION Like many men my age, I get excited when I see a sex scene in a video. In fact, people like me are the reason Basic Instinct made such a huge sale when it was released. But there are sex scenes and there are scenes. As a kid, while I thoroughly enjoyed watching the sexy Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct and even found myself excited, I couldn't bring myself to watching I Spit on Your Grave; the 1978 movie which depicted scenes of a gang violation. Yes, it had graphic sex scenes but seeing a man force himself on a woman was not my idea of pleasure. It was just sickening. I had this sickening feeling again on Monday when I watched a minute or two of the widely circulated video of the gang violation purportedly committed by five students of the Abia State University. A combined feeling of disgust and anger took over me. I couldn’t understand the pleasure of overpowering a woman and taking turns to inflict so much pain and humiliation on her. How could they hear the frustrated victim beg to be killed and laughingly ask if she wasn’t enjoying the sex? Such cruelty! There is no doubt those five animals had to be beasts to carry out such evil. But there is another set of beasts among us; the ones who weren’t there to violation the poor girl but have acquired, or are seeking to acquire, the video for intimate pleasure. I base my conclusion on very disturbing comments I have read on some blogs since the matter was made public. The comments on Linda Ikeji’s blog were particularly sad. At least a dozen “sympathizers” had tough words for the rapists but ended up asking for the violation video to be sent to their emails, perhaps for their viewing pleasure. Of course some of those who made such requests did so out of a genuine desire to help solve the crime. Others did so out of curiosity of the video’s content. But it is hard to not think that many of those who sought to get the video were not seeking to satisfy their perverted minds. How else does one explain a comment like the one below? “Wait oh, na canine style dem dey knack her akpako oh, chai, no KY gel too. What could be the magnitude of her offence?” So after watching the video, the anonymous individual who made the comment only had issues with the sex positions used by the rapists and the offence the girl might have committed. It is safe to say this person thinks violation can be justified once the position is proportional to the offence. Beyond the requests for the video made on blogs and other social network sites, I see a very disturbing trend in the attitude exhibited by some students of Abia State University. From the information available to the public, the violation video had been widely circulated in the institution for about a month before bloggers made the case viral on social networks. The question then is why didn’t those who saw it take action to “identify and bring the culprits to book”? Why were young men and women viewing and distributing it like they would a funny joke? Now that some Nigerians have taken up the matter and are seeking justice for the victim, some of these people have turned investigators and are cursing everyone. I dare say students of the university have failed that girl. Have we not read reports of the student union “vowing” to bring the perpetrators to book? That’s fine. But where were they when the video was distributed among students? Are we to believe they had no prior knowledge of its existence? I am willing to bet the very students who giggled at the “canine style” when they viewed the video are now at the forefront of the hunt for the RAPISTS. Trust me; they are only hunting their kind. I commend Linda Ikeji and other bloggers for behaving responsibly so far. Despite the pressure from perverts and self-styled investigators, they have refused to post the video on their blogs. They have refused to contribute to the victim’s shame. Limiting the circulation of that video is the least we can do for this lady who has suffered a terrible fate. If we are truly angry that five men violated her, we must show that we are not willing to help hundreds, if not thousands, of perverts gain pleasure from that video. probably the most disturbing part of the whole thing. i had an opportunity, some years back, to check out, but i didn't follow through. at times like this, i wish i did. i have, on nairaland, read all sorts of bizarre defenses and assertions - the girl did not resist, she cheated them,she did not report etc. i don't know what is wrong with our current generation, but i am afraid for my kids, if these are the sort of minds they will be mixing with. the casual attitude even among women - i remember a conversation a bout the r-ape of women on a night bus by robbers - a woman was giving me a second hand narrative - and she said "they were considerate - they used condoms and they still caught their fun" that was from a woman. it may have to do with quasi religious 'not my portion' idiocy that so many nigerians wallow in - such things only happen to other people; they must have done something to deserve it etc, this thing was on the sun news website for a full month. everyday, violation cases are reported in the media; pm news, next, etc, and nothing happens as the author noted, we have to give kudos to MS ikeji - if she had not put the story on her blog, thus garnering the attention of civilised nigerians and foreigners (the coverage by the west is a big pat of the new vigor in prosecuting the case) the story would die like so many others. on a side note, sahara reporters have located the scene of the crime. they need to take the proprietor of the hotel or whatever it is in for questioning. IT CANNOT BE THE FIRST TIME IT HAS HAPPENED THERE. and i'm sure if leaned on, the workers there can identify several other R-apists sine western media are involved, and we have the govt of announcements, i guess we will see some sort of closure to this case - and the victim will probably get asylum - the threat to her life from associates of these thugs, and from the sug, university and orji politicl machinery are clear and present. lets see if the spam bot does its thing again