Putting an end to rape goes beyond social media outcries that won't last more than a week. The impact is like dropping a pinch of salt in the river.
No one is addressing the main issue, the factors of rape. We live in a society that if you dare mention the causes and solution, you will be tagged an enabler, you are automatically blaming the victim or justifying the devilish act.
But for how long are we going to continue playing politics with the future of these fragile vessels?
The victim was not raped the moment rape occur.
The victim was raped when we allow songs glorifying rape in our society, songs describing female private part. Listen to Olumide's song "story for the gods" glorifying rape, and you will realised the victim was raped the moment the song was released into the society and we all keep mum.
The victim was raped the moment we accept indecent dressing as the new normal.
We are finding it difficult to wish away this hydra-headed monster in our midst and we assume we can achieve this by being economic in our approach. Telling someone who dresses nude that her choice of dress shouldn't give her abuser the liberty over her is more or less permitting defeacation in the open and querrying the visitation of flies.
While we are growing up, it is a taboo to wear a mini skirt, but today we allow our girls to roam the street naked, grown up girls appear on the street with panties.
The victim was raped when women lost their dignity.
The society reduces women to mere object of advertisement. What is the correlation between advertising a car and putting the picture of a semi-nude lady in front of it?
Modeling was introduced to professionalise lack of shame.
The victim was raped when substance abuse is become a phenomenon. When addicts have access to prescription drugs. When the society is flooded with different brands of alcohol herbal beverages that are aphrodisiac
The victim was raped when the family system collapsed, the women that are supposed to instill moral values in the male child are on 7:00 am to 9:00 pm paid employment, the child is left at the mercy of uncensored content on television, he watched how rape is being done on television, he watched things that only married people are allowed to do, he listened to songs glorifying rape and when he eventually grows up, self restraint for him becomes a luxury.
The truth must be told.