Onimisi Hails Natasha For Reviving Ochanya Case

The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Onono Onimisi Foundation (OOF), Onono Onimisi Rafatu, has lauded Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for reigniting the combat for justness successful the lawsuit of 13-year-old Ochanya Elizabeth Ogbanje, who died successful 2018 aft years of alleged intersexual abuse.

Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central, had expressed daze connected Instagram implicit reports that the accused persons successful the lawsuit had been discharged and acquitted.

In her post, she urged the household of the precocious Ochanya to taxable a ceremonial petition to her bureau astatine the National Assembly, enabling her to prosecute justness connected their behalf.

“Years ago, the heart-wrenching communicative of small Ochanya devastated me. I thought the perpetrators were successful jail. Alas, they were discharged and acquitted,” the legislator lamented.

She added, “The household of the precocious Ochanya Ogbanje should constitute a petition to me: Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Room 2:05 Senate Wing, National Assembly Complex, Abuja. For our children, I basal for justness for Ochanya.”

Ochanya’s decease successful October 2018, caused by complications linked to Vesicovaginal Fistula (VVF), sparked nationwide outrage and birthed the societal media run #JusticeForOchanya, which demanded accountability and stronger kid extortion laws.

Reacting successful a connection connected Thursday, Onono Onimisi praised Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan’s courageousness and empathy, describing her enactment arsenic “a connection to each young miss that their symptom matters.”

She said, “Senator Natasha’s determination to revisit Ochanya’s lawsuit wasn’t conscionable an enactment of justice; it was a wake-up telephone to the federation that women’s voices successful enactment are not ornamental — they are transformational.”

According to her, supporting women strengthens nine and creates a concatenation of courageousness that “defies soundlessness and fear.”

“As we proceed to advocator for sex equilibrium successful governance, Natasha’s illustration remains a almighty reminder that empowering women is not astir numbers; it’s astir nurturing enactment that refuses to look distant erstwhile others suffer,” Onimisi added.

She noted that the senator’s determination transcended politics, describing it arsenic a reflection of “what happens erstwhile women pb with empathy and conscience.”