A video showing a Nigerian woman being repeatedly raped in her college dormitory in Nigeria has sparked cries of outrage in the country. While local authorities dismissed the 10-minute video, which circulated around the campus of Abia State University before it was leaked on the Internet, human rights activists are up in arms over the incident and Nigeria’s youth minister has called on police to prosecute the assailants. Several Internet users are offering rewards for information about the perpetrators, who take turns raping the woman and laugh as she pleads, “Please just kill me.” Activists said the video uncovers a largely unreported epidemic of rape in the nation. The fact that the assailants recorded and circulated the rape “shows… that they’re daring society to take action on it,” said Josephine Effah-Chukwuma, In the grainy video, a Nigerian woman repeatedly asks her attackers to kill her as they take turns raping her at a university dormitory. The five men only promise to drive her home, pushing her back down each time she starts to stand up.
Local authorities have dismissed the 10-minute video, which has ricocheted around the internet in recent days. But Nigeria’s youth minister is calling for police to prosecute the men.
Some internet users disturbed by it are even offering rewards for information.
Activists in Nigeria say the video exposes an under reported epidemic of rape in Africa’s most populous nation, and they plan to march in the coming days to draw attention to the case.
“The perpetrators go further to record it and circulate it. It shows for me that they’re daring society to take action on it,” said Josephine Effah-Chukwuma, the executive director of a Nigerian women’s rights group called Project Alert.
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