With
Nigerians trying to get over the outrage caused by the leaked s*x video
of Miss Anambra, a group has made demands about the Miss Anambra
pageant.
Chidinma Okeke
A group, the Civil Rights Realisation and Advancement Network,
CRRAN, has made a new statement about the controversial s*x tape of a
Miss Anambra.
The group, in its statement, called for thorough investigation over the controversy surrounding the Miss Anambra Beauty Pageant.
According to Daily Post, the group asked the National Agency for
the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons to look into the alleged
suspected case of $exual exploitation and trafficking involved in the
contest.
The development followed the circulation of an online lesbian s*x
video involving the winner of the 2015 edition of the pageant, Miss
Chidimma Okeke.
In a petition dated October 29, and addressed to the Director
General of NAPTIP, the group said there were strong indications that the
organisers of the pageant were $exually exploiting young girls who
participated in the beauty contest.
According to Daily Post, president of CRRAN, Mr. Olu Omotayo, who
signed the petition, urged NAPTIP to prosecute masterminds of the
alleged $exual exploitation.
He expressed regrets that the pageant, which was established by a
government agency – Anambra State Broadcasting Service – has turned into
an avenue for $exual exploitation and trafficking.
Part of the petition read, “Recent happenings which led to the
online circulation of Nudde pictures and video of the said Miss Anambra
pageant queen 2015, Miss Chidimma Okeke, have shown prima facie that the
organisers of the pageant are using the avenue to $exually exploit
young innocent girls of South East Nigeria.
“The purpose for which the state government through one of its
parastatals, the Anambra State Broadcasting Service, established the
pageant competition has been defeated because it could no longer be said
that the pageant is promoting m0rality, culture of the people or
empowering the female youths of this zone.
“We submit that it is part of the functions of your agency to
among other things: ‘investigate all cases of trafficking in persons
including forced labour, child labour, forced prostitution, exploitative
labour, and other forms of exploitation, slavery and slavery like
activities, bounded labour, removal of organs, illegal smuggling of
migrants, sale and purchase of persons’.
“We submit that the incident in Anambra State is $exual exploitation and slavery of young female persons.
“We urge you to urgently commence thorough investigation into
this barbaric competition and made those behind it face the full wrath
of the law.”
The group insisted that the beauty contest should be banned, in order to prevent further exploitation of young girls.
It said, “It becomes more worrisome when it is an agency of the
state government that is involved in a dastardly act of this nature.
This is a serious embarrassment to the whole nation.
“We urge you to take immediate action to save female youths in
the South-East Nigeria, particularly Anambra State, from further $exual
exploitation and slavery being perpetrated under the so called pageant.
“The government should immediately ban the said pageant.”
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