Port Harcourt News

RAPIST ON THE PRAWL IN RIVERS STATE
..Doctors Without Border says fathers, uncles, drivers worst offenders

 By Clarice Azuatalam, Port Harcourt

The medical humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Border (Medecins Sans Frontiers), has expressed concerns over the increasing cases of rape by fathers, uncles and drivers, on young girls in Port Harcourt and other parts of Rivers State.
DWB Outreach Supervisor, Glory Kanu, who made the startling revelation, said the organization treats about 70 sexually abused children monthly.
Nation Evening Express’ investigation however revealed that the organisation’s figure represents a fraction of cases of sexual abuses in the area. Experts sayd victims are unwilling to report abuses either because of fear or shame.
However, Kanu, who spoke at the General Meeting of the Rivers State Chapter of Nigerian Institute of Public Relations in Port Harcourt, advised parents to keep close watch on their children and be more affectionate to them in order to keep them away from the claws of rampaging rapists.
Citing heart-breaking instances of children raped by their fathers, uncles, drivers, house girls, houseboys, teachers and all, the supervisor of Doctors Without Borders expressed fear that the future society would be more violent-prone due to the psychological effect most of the rape victims have been afflicted with “because they would want to unleash their anger at anybody they come across.”
Kanu revealed that DWB is set to leave the city in 2013, eight years after its arrival. She charged members of NIPR and indeed the larger society to begin to engage in preventive measures on rape.
She identified the need to adopt confidentiality when correcting sexual abuses as important.
Meanwhile, Kanu has advised victims of rape to contact her organisation at Teme Clinic, Port Harcourt within 72 hours of the incident while sufferers of other forms of violence like gunshots, beatings, stabs and assaults should come for treatment free of charge within 48 hours of the attack.
Kanu further used the opportunity to inform of the history of Doctors Without Borders, which she said was founded about 40 years ago by a group French doctors and journalists but it has now turned into an international organisation which operates in 70 countries of the world.
The organisation works in mainly crisis-prone countries irrespective of race, religious or political affiliations and the services they render are free of charge.