The leadership of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Adamawa State chapter, has condemned the battering of one of its female members, Nafeesah Vandi, by her ex husband, Ibrahim Aliyu.
Vandi, according to a statement jointly signed by the council chairman, Donald Dedan and his secretary, Fidelis Jocthtan, said the victim is a staff member of the Adamawa Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Yola.
The statement said: “The union describes the heinous act as unacceptable, wickedness and barbaric, beating such a professional female practicing Journalist to a stupor by her alleged husband Mallam Ibrahim Aliyu, a sacked staff of PHCN.
“Though the police has already swung into action in investigating and arresting the perpetrator of the domestic violence, the NUJ calls for a more speedy action towards the immediate arrest and prosecution of the said Mallam Ibrahim Aliyu according to the law and constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“The union further calls on national and international organizations like FIDA, UNFPA, UNICEF as well as Civil Society Organizations that are propagating a total halt on violence against women to step into the matter for justice to prevail.”
Similarly, the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) in a statement jointly signed by its acting chairperson, Villian Murray, and secretary, Rose Anthony Elishama, regretted that at such a time where the campaign against domestic violence, wife battering, and other gender-based violence has become a daily affair on pages of newspapers and the airwaves, some have decided to dare the laws.
While nothing with deep concern the barbaric act meted on its member Nafeesa Vandi, say’s it has to be a strong advocate against violence, against women and cannot watch its members be a victim,” the statement said
NAWOJ, therefore, called on the Nigerian police to investigate the matter until justice is secured for Nafeesa Vandi.
The union also appealed to the general public to continue to expose bad eggs in a society like Ibrahim Aliyu who has crossed the the red lines