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All 13 male students of the University of Ghana who were accused of inserting their fingers into the private part of an alleged female thief have been discharged.
The students who were charged on three counts of conspiracy to commit crime, assault and causing unlawful harm were discharged on Tuesday by an Accra Circuit court.
Lawyer for the 13, Rockson Dafiamekpor told Accra based Joy Fm that the discharge of his clients was in order because although they were charged with conspiracy to commit crime “no specific crime was specified.”
“We are saying since March last year when this matter broke, we are in July 2012, this is about 15 or 16 months and prosecution has failed to initiate any proceedings in this matter, its always been adjournment one after the other.
Ms Ingrid Turinawe was heard shouting in pain on video
A Ugandan police officer has been suspended over the alleged sexual assault of an opposition activist, the authorities have said.
Footage shows an officer squeezing the breast of Ingrid Turinawe of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) as she was arrested last week.
“One officer has been suspended pending further investigation,” Internal Affairs Minister James Baba said.
His statement did not say whether the police officer was male or female.
Ms Turinawe, who is the head of the Women’s League of the FDC led by Kizza Besigye, was arrested on Friday as she tried to drive to an opposition rally just outside the capital, Kampala.
Uganda Ingrid Turinawe 'sexual abuse' protesters strip
A group of women have stripped to their bras in protest at the alleged sexual assault by Ugandan police of a high-profile female opposition politician.
Footage shows an officer squeezing the breast of Ingrid Turinawe of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) during her arrest ahead of a rally last week.
Deputy police chief Andrew Kaweesa has apologised, saying the incident will be investigated.
Uganda’s opposition says police regularly harass them during protests.
Since President Yoweri Museveni’s controversial 2011 re-election, there has been a wave of opposition demonstrations – many of which have ended in violence and arrests.
The 'jaboya' system is thought to be a contributing factor to high levels of HIV in Nyanza Province, Picture by Joanne Chui (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jo_photography/5455766518/)
KISUMU, 19 December 2011 (PlusNews) – For the past five years, Achieng*, a 35-year-old widow and mother of six, has sold fish on the Kenyan shores of Lake Victoria; like many women in the fish trade, Achieng often has to have sex with fishermen in order to get the best catch of the day, a system known in the local Luo language as ‘jaboya’.
“When you are a woman and you want to get into the business of selling fish, you must be ready to lose your pride and use your body for bargaining,” she told IRIN/PlusNews. “Being ready to give sex as and when it is needed by the fishermen… it guarantees your survival here on the beach.”
‘Jaboya’ has long been associated with the high levels of HIV infection in Kenya’s western Nyanza Province, where HIV prevalence is over 14.9 percent, double the national average of 7.4 percent. It is even higher among fishing communities. The Kenya HIV Prevention Response and Modes of Transmission Analysis 2009 reported that HIV prevalence among fishing communities stands at 30 percent, while an estimated 25 percent of all new infections in Nyanza are attributed to this group.
An estimated 27,000 women are involved in the fish trade in Nyanza either directly or indirectly, according to the Ministry of Fisheries.
Achieng says she is aware of the risks, but the immediate needs of her family override any concern she may have about contracting HIV.
“You know you can get HIV… but then you remember you have a family that needs to be provided for, and you say, let me die providing for them,” she said
According to Charles Okal, the provincial AIDS and sexually transmitted infections coordinator for Nyanza, while efforts to reach out to fishing communities with HIV prevention messages have begun to show results, the continued poverty of women means they remain vulnerable to ‘jaboya’.
“Fish trade that goes along with sex-for-fish continues to be one of the greatest challenges in the prevention of HIV in Nyanza… There are still challenges which involve the economic and social vulnerabilities of the women involved in the trade,” he said.
Economic empowerment
A recent donation of six boats to women’s groups in Nyanza by the US Peace Corps shows some of the ways ‘jaboya’ can be addressed; the women are able to fish for themselves, eliminating dependence on fishermen.
“When you have nothing, those who have something must tell you to bend over backwards for them. Now we have boats and we will no longer be at anybody’s mercy,” Millicent Onyango, one of the beneficiaries of the US Peace Corps’ “No Sex for Fish” project.
According to Okeyo Owuor, director of the Victoria Institute for Research on Environment and Development, which is part of the initiative, empowering women economically is key to ending the dangerous fish-for-sex trade. “These women need fish but they don’t own any boat. This means they have to play along with whoever has the boat and these are men who will demand for sex before giving any fish. But when you empower them to own the boat, then they have the ultimate power to say no to sexual demands,” he said.
“Six boats might look small but many such initiatives can make an impact in ending the sex-for-fish trade if replicated over time. It is important to start from somewhere,” he added.
Many of the women trading in fish across Lake Victoria’s landing sites have formed groups to help them save money to buy their own fishing equipment.
“We want to help ourselves by putting some of our savings aside so that when we have enough, we can buy our own boats and nets and help each other. So we will have nearly all women who are at the beaches own a boat either individually, or as a group,” said Lillian Rajula, the leader of one such group.
According to Nyanza AIDS coordinator Okal, economic programmes must go hand in hand with other HIV prevention methods like the promotion of voluntary medical male circumcision, condom use and behaviour change communication.
“Apart from the need to empower the women, behaviour change communication targeting men is important so that they look at the women as business partners and not sex partners; these kind of efforts are ongoing and are being embraced, albeit slowly,” he said.
The Legon Police say they are currently screening a number of students of the University of Ghana, suspected to have been involved in molesting Amina Haruna, an alleged thief who the police said had earlier been arrested twice for the same offence on the Legon campus.
The university has also indicated in a press release issued on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, that a Fact Finding Committee set up by the school had since Tuesday, April 12, completed its work and submitted a report to the Vice-Chancellor, who is the Head of the Disciplinary Committee.
“The Fact-Finding Committee appointed by the executive committee of the University to look into the circumstances leading to the mentioned event has completed its work and submitted a report on its findings to the Dean of Students and the Vice-Chancellor on Tuesday, 12th April 20II. The committee identified a number of students who were present during the molestation as seen in the video clips produced and also from credible eye-witness accounts,” the press release stated.
Following this development, a number of students who were identified were handed over to the police to assist in its investigations.
“Without any prejudice to the provisions statutes of the University, the list of persons duly identified in the report of the Fact-Finding Committee has been handed over to the Ghana Police Service for its own investigations,” it stated.
The university said that “based on the recommendations of the Fact-Finding Committee, the Vice-Chancellor, in his capacity as the chief disciplinary officer of the University, has referred the case against the persons mentioned in the report to the Disciplinary Committee for students.”
Those persons were invited to meet with the Disciplinary Committee as per a Writ of Summons issued on Wednesday, 13th April, 2011.
The school authorities assured the university and the general public that it would not relent in the discovery and sanctioning of the culprits.
“Management would like to assure the University community and the general public that it is doing all that is possible to bring to book and sanction all those involved in the despicable act seen in the video.”
Amina Haruna, a resident of Maamobi in Accra, was on Thursday, March 31, 2011, stripped naked when she was arrested by students of the Mensah Sarbah Hall on the Legon campus for allegedly stealing a number of mobile phones and a laptop computer.
Though some of the students were seen trying to free her from the claws of her captors, others were seen eagerly stretching her thighs wide open for their colleagues to insert their fingers and even mobile phones into her vagina, revealing her clitoral region.
Amina’s brassiere and her underpants where shredded and even snatched away, leaving her stark naked for the boys to do their own thing despite her pleas for leniency.
The Legon Police told media persons that Amina had twice been arrested for a similar offence and was arraigned.
She jumped bail after an Accra Circuit Court granted her bail.
The police had since sought a bench warrant to arrest her, but were unsuccessful until the unfortunate incident.
However the Legon Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Frank Anning, told DAILY GUIDE in an earlier interview that the Police would arraign Amina and her assailants as well, since the law had no place for offenders and those who took the law into their own hands.
Amina said, but for the intervention and care by her grandmother, would have committed suicide.
She feels dejected as her fiancé has also deserted her and revoked plans to marry her.
