The Federal Government, FG, on Monday, added its voice to the growing list of people seeking justice University of Ilorin undergraduate, Blessing Olajide.
The FG called on security agencies, including the Department of State Services and the police in Kwara State to immediately swing into action and fish out the killers of the young lady.
The International Federation of Women Lawyers, the Kwara State Ministry of Women Affairs and several other prominent Nigerians had earlier demanded justice for Olajide.
The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, made the call in a statement signed by her.
The government said there must be justice for Olajide, a 300-level student in the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Ilorin, who was raped to death by her assailants.
Tallen stated, “There must be justice for the University of Ilorin undergraduate, Blessing Olajide, who recently met her untimely death due to rape.
“It is most disheartening to receive the report of the alleged rape and murder of this young promising Blessing Olajide, and I see this as a heinous act.
“It is an act that falls below the threshold of accepted behaviour and no excuse should be made in condemning this act.
“To say that it was perpetrated against a young female student, who was already in the 300-level of her study at the University of Ilorin, is most condemnable.
“She was allegedly raped and murdered in her room in the Tanke area of Ilorin, Kwara State. It is most unfortunate that this promising young lady could not feel safe in her home, when it is often said that a person’s home is a person’s fortress.
“Far from throwing up our hands in the air in resignation about the persistent perpetration of rape by perverts, who are still engaging in it, I want to reiterate that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari will not yield a ground in our resolve to ensure that perpetrators of rape do not go un-apprehended and unpunished.
“I understand that Blessing Olajide, who until her death, was a student of the Agricultural Science Department, hailed from Oke-Opin in the Ekiti Local Government Area of the state.
“My heart goes out to the parents and family of the victim, as well as her friends and the management of the University of Ilorin over this misfortune and loss.
“I urge the Commissioner of Police in Kwara State, all sister law enforcement agencies in the state such as the DSS and the university management to immediately swing into discreet investigation and action to fish out the perpetrators and the collaborators of this dastardly act with a view to bringing them to justice.
“There must be justice for the late Blessing Olajide and her family and friends.
“My ministry will continue to support every timely action taken to ensure that rape is seen by all in the light of how we see it in the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs: It is a no, no!”
