Female students of Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, cry out over sexual assaults at their hostel
Below is an email sent to us on behalf of female students of the school. Read below...
Good morning Linda. I write on behalf of over 200 girls who are current
residents of the school hostel of federal university of petroleum
resources effurun Delta state who have been victims of sexual assaults
for over 8 months. We have tried on so many occasions to make our
plight known to the school management but no one takes it seriously.
We live in a hostel with low fences with no armed
security (only sheriff deputies ...usually one per hostel) who fall
asleep at the slightest breeze. It started June/July last year with
girls waking up to screaming at night. Apparently, a man/ men had jumped
the fence nd starting touching, rubbing and molesting sleeping girls
through their windows. Imagine waking up to strange hands on ur body
... the shock and trauma leaves most girls in tears..... management
claims we are imagining things or asks us to hold on to the hands wen we
wake up. .. and slowly the issue dies down. We resumed dis year to
new complaints and it got worse last night. A hypertensive student
almost had a heart attack when she woke up to a strange hand working its
way up her legs...after opening her window and tearing here mosquito
net. We woke up to screams and she was rushed to d health center.... nd
her asthmatic bunk mate was left almost choking to death. Almost 9 rooms
were visited last night. School authority has refused to make out fence
higher or place patrol teams... they insist we hold on to the man when
we see him... which is nearly impossible since d first response is to
run nd raise an alarm. The option of moving the beds away from d window
is also out of it since we live in already overcrowded rooms with 4
bunked beds (8students) and four large lockers. We know that creating
buzz about it online is the only way to get managements attention ..
please help give us a voice ... we live in fear of standing up
individually and being victimized or our grades being punished .
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