Day 37 of #JusticeForOchanya 💔
Another day. Another reminder that we refuse to let Ochanya’s story fade into silence.
This 13-year-old girl from Benue State was sent to live with “family” for schooling and safety. Instead, from the age of 8, she was repeatedly raped by her uncle Andrew Ogbuja (a lecturer) and his son Victor Ogbuja.
The years of abuse destroyed her body, leaving her with vesicovaginal fistula (VVF). She suffered in silence, smiled through the pain, and eventually died in October 2018.
Andrew was acquitted by the court in 2022.
Victor remains a fugitive walking free, with no sustained manhunt, no fresh wanted notice, and no real pressure from the authorities even years later.
The continued silence from @BenuePoliceNG, @benuestategovt, and @PoliceNG is complicity that protects the guilty while Nigerian girls keep paying with their lives.
We demand:
Arrest Victor Ogbuja NOW.
Re-open the full case.
Deliver real justice and systemic change.
To every parent trusting “family” with their daughter’s future — this fight is for you too.
To every girl child still at risk — we see you.
Ochanya, your blood still cries out from the ground. We will not rest until justice is served. Every single day we show up for you. Rest in power, beautiful angel. The fight continues.
We are not tired.
We are not forgetting.
We are not stopping. 🙏
#JusticeForOchanya #ArrestVictorOgbuja #EndChildRape #ProtectTheGirlChild #JusticeForTheGirlChild
In Feb, I was on a call with a friend in Canada. We were doing our routine catch up session.
She casually asked me what a two bedroom in Lekki would rent for. I told her C$29,000/N30M. She said “there’s no way Lagosians are paying that much for rent??”
Everytime the DSS/Army/Police picks up based on social media posts, I marvel at the efficiency.
Seemingly anon accounts get nabbed under 24hours - anywhere they are, within the country. 48H max.
Makes you wonder.
Makes you also confirm the truth about Nigeria's insecurity.
It’s not just older people now. My landlady is in her 30s but I’m taking her to court because she’s refused to pay for a new generator that the other landlords contributed towards and my apartment then got disconnected from the generator AND from NEPA.
I understand being afraid of a revolution, the consequences and what it will take.
But then, at some point you have got to ask yourself, what serves us more: staying docile and feeding a broken system, or forcing a reckoning and confronting the consequences head-on?
I find it very interesting that it’s the youth taking to the streets to campaign for voting registration and awareness. Are the other politicians running their own campaigns? Or sponsoring this ones? Or just sitting back and doing political meetings here and there?
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Yesterday at Iyana Ipaja Bus-stops Lagos.
Their boys came and we told them they deserve better, and yes majority agreed.
The unrelenting message remains.
Tinubu and co Must Go!!!
@tahir@lovechisom6