That in response to the widespread reports about random abduction of women in
Abuja, FCT by AEPB and law enforcement agents and due to her own personal
experiences, the first Defendant set up an NGO, the Dorothy Njemanze
Foundation to advocate for justice for victims of these violations.
The 1st Plaintiff avers further that she complained about her assault and random
abductions to the Commissioner of Police, Public Complaints Commission, the
National Human Right Commission, the Chief of Army Staff, and other Law
Enforcement Agencies of the Defendant but she has not been provided with
redress till date and these abductions against women on the street of Abuja still
continue unabated.
On her part, the 2nd Plaintiff avers that on 9th January, 2010, on her way back from
her brother’s birthday with some of her friends, she was abducted by 10 men who
came out of nowhere and started beating her and taking pictures of her as they
almost stripped her naked. They touched her breast and her buttocks and some of
them put their fingers in her vagina. While they were beating her, they hit her in
her eyes and nose thereby causing a tear which blurred the vision in her left eye
and left her with a chronic synopsis.
The 2nd plaintiff further avers that the armed uniformed men threatened to shoot
her if she did not enter into a waiting bus fearing for her life she complied. These
armed men did not ask her for any form of identification, even when she identified
herself as a student and Redbull employee, they still unlawfully arrested and took
her and her friends to their office.
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