SIGNED
Bright Ogbonna Esq.
Director of Volunteers
SIFA Human Rights Office.
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5Section 283.
6Section 6
7Section 282(2)
8T. Akpogome, ‘Analysis of the Domestic Legal Framework on Sexual Violence in Nigeria’, Journal of Law and Criminal Justice, Vol.4 No. 2 2016 pp. 17 – 30.
9Sexual Offences Act 2003 (UK)
10Section 1(4) VAPP Act
11Section 44 VAPP Act
12(1968) NMLR 117
13Nigeria: ‘Rape: The Silent Weapon’, refworld.org/pdfid/45a2479c2.pdf
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16(2011) 2 NWLR (PT.1234) 393.
