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Lawyer Reveals How Nigerian Law School Promotes Rape Culture, Shields Rapist Lectures
A lawyer has made startling revelation about the highest formal institution for legal education in the country, Nigeria law school.
The lawyer who goes by the name Loila Etomi exposed the rot in the school when she revealed how both male and female lecturers explicitly promote rape culture through their outright justification of the abominable acts.
Etomi said a female lawyer, along side two other male lecturers, while giveing a speech to over 1000 students of the school, warned the students against reporting rape or sexual assaults incidents “because it takes two to tangle”
She said one of the three lecturers was involved in rape scandal last year but the matter was swept under the rug.
She also disclosed how she was hounded and harassed by her colleagues when she decided to go public with the lecturers speech by sharing what they said on her private twitter account.
Etomi said no sooner had she exposed the lectures than a student, whom she identified as Nwachukwu Obi, started a witch-hunt to find her and get her expelled from the school.
Obi could be heard, in a voice note Etomi shared, inciting other students against Etomi, he averred that if Etomi was not fished out and handed over to the school authority they will not graduate from the school.
So one day at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos, 2 senior lecturers- in a hall of over 1000+ students and other lecturers decided to give a speech to all law students- saying that they should not report incidents of rape/sexual assault, because “it takes two to tangle”.
— Lolia Etomi (@liaetomi) September 5, 2020
The female lecturer supported the male lecturer, saying “we will not support you because I feel sorry for the men. Some of you ladies, your bare arms distract even me. You women are the ones tempting them. When you paint your nails, wear lipgloss etc., you are luring men.”
— Lolia Etomi (@liaetomi) September 5, 2020
One of these lecturers was involved in a rape scandal last year. There were over 1000 + witnesses. On my, then private twitter account- I posted a simple transcript of what these lecturers told us publicly, verbatim. Nothing more or less.
— Lolia Etomi (@liaetomi) September 5, 2020
This led to law school mentioning my tweets in an assembly, but as I had a different twitter pic/name, they didn’t know who was behind it. They gave a general warning about portraying NLS in a negative light in public. They did not address or denounce the problematic statements.
— Lolia Etomi (@liaetomi) September 5, 2020
This man, @nwatonye- Nwachukwu Obi -took it upon himself to send voicenotes to all the law school student group chats, starting a witch-hunt to find & report me to admin, so they would expel me. He told them that if they didn’t scapegoat me, the school would fail everyone. pic.twitter.com/dgsBXcgiP9
— Lolia Etomi (@liaetomi) September 5, 2020
The student body president Graham Garrick Nosa John @thegarrick_ who is currently studying at @durham_uni @DurhamLawSchool, and @nwatonye, then started harassing my friends, circulating pictures & false info about me. Threatening & blackmailing them to expose & denounce me.
— Lolia Etomi (@liaetomi) September 5, 2020
The law school issued me a query and barred me from writing my exams to become a lawyer until I wrote them an apology letter. I did not. I wrote a letter standing by my words & actions. Luckily, the law school was not competent enough to actually read my letter, so I got off.
— Lolia Etomi (@liaetomi) September 5, 2020
One day, i'll talk about pt 2 of how I was targeted and harassed by a law school lecturer, Mr. Uduemeze, after this incident. How he seized my phone and kept me on campus until midnight and tried to take a photo of my drivers license with personal info, address etc to circulate.
— Lolia Etomi (@liaetomi) September 5, 2020
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