Uwaila Omozuwa: Djinee blames parents for how the male child is brought up

Singer Djinee has reacted to the news of a UNIBEN student who was raped to death inside a church in Edo State.

Uwaila Omozuwa, a 100 level student of Microbiology, was raped and bashed with a fire extinguisher in the head by unknown men.

In reaction, Djinee blamed parents for the upbringing of the male child which he says has the higher propensity to do evil.

Djinee wrote: “Uwa’s story breaks me. We all have to admit that our parents have failed woefully in the raising of the male child. Concentrating too much on the conduct of the female child when it’s actually the males who have the higher propensity to do evil! #JusticeForUwa

"When rape happens especially when it is as vicious as this, I ask myself that how has parenting/upbringing played its part to encourage the act?

"We have to understand how a system (be it parenting, legal, cultural or societal) increases the TENDENCY of a crime happening to a particular gender, race, ethnicity or religious belief more than the other(s). Most times you’ll find your root cause there.

"I’m sorry. I have sisters and cousins and I fear for them daily. One of my sisters was the reason I moved to a secure gated community after an incident, costing me ×5 in expenses. Even at that, I still worry.

"Today it is Uwa. Y’day it was someone else. 2moro it might be som1 we know. A friend who was gang-raped in the past is living with HIV today. There is no way Uwa’s sad incident won’t bring up the fact that our women are an endangered gender. You cant isolate crime from culture.

"The whistles, catcalls & groping in some cases. We saw this even as teenagers in secondary schools. Boys just being boys. Let’s be honest we weren’t told to rape. Majority of us weren’t told “DO NOT GROPE, MAKE CAT CALLS LET ALONE RAPE”.”