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Lockdown escalated the number of rape cases - Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tall - Edoman - 06-11-2020 Lockdown escalated the number of rape cases - Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen Pauline Tallen, Nigeria's Minister of Women Affairs, has attributed the spike in the number of rape cases to the lockdown. Tallen said this to state house correspondents on Wednesday, June 10 after the Federal Executive Council meeting where she brought up the rape pandemic in the country. She disclosed that an action plan which would involve the judiciary and the media, is being put in place to tackle the rape menace. Quote:“There has been an outcry against rape epidemic because of the lockdown. I know we have always had rape in this country but with the lockdown of people in homes because of COVID-19, women and children are locked down with their abusers. The number has escalated three times of what we had seen. There is no state with an exception. The number has reached alarming rate. |