Ladies protesting the killings of women and girls in Port Harcourt. Source: Twitter/Port Harcourt Significant Girls
Twitter users on Monday are calling for the protection of girls and women in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.
The call is coming on the heels of the killing of a young girl in a hotel in Port Harcourt on Saturday.
The PUNCH reported that the incident happened in a hotel situated in Obo Road, Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State.
An eyewitness, who simply identified himself as Peter said, “The girl is just a teenager, we found her corpse lying with her clothes yesterday evening in the hotel room. Her killer was nowhere to be found. Her hands were tied behind her back with a white cloth, as well as her legs and neck.”
Her death was just one in a series of killings of women in PH hotels in recent time, hence Twitter users are demanding that security operatives protect women and girls in the oil-rich state.
Meanwhile, the Rivers State Police Command has advised young women to shun prostitution.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Administration, Chuks Enwonwu, while addressing protesters recently said, “In as much as societal values are disintegrating, we must go back to try to educate them (women) and discourage them from going into prostitution because that is how they fall victim to these crimes.”
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The WiZRD
@Musty_SNK
Our Nigerian government need to something about the security of this country, Nigeria is not safe at all, every new day its a sad story, I’m really tired of it.#ProtectPhGirls
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Dickiana
@ApokiDickson
Whether you are fighting for a just cause or not, this is indirectly justifying the serial killer even the said sex workers are human, they don’t deserve to die in such manner.#ProtectPhGirls #ProtectPHWomen
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Odogwu the Sensei@iamkvngdavid_
Its obvious the state government has no value for the women and daughters in Rivers State. If they do truly understand the importance of women in a society them they would bring this killer to justice.
What is Wike and his cabinet doing?#ProtectPHWomen #ProtectPhGirls
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Moji Delano@MojiDelanoBlog
Wow.Just learnt that serial killer is on the loose in Port Harcourt and has allegedly killed 10 women at diff places by strangulation. What is the NPF doing about this?
To ladies in PH, pls step up your personal safety measures.1/#ProtectPhGirls #ProtectPHWomen #SerialKillerInPH14
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Uncle Yemmie ✪@opydoc
Hotels are not built solely for prostitutes. Even if they were, "protection" should come first before this lame "criticism". Protect your citizens and stop failing them every time. #ProtectPhGirls
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ebele.@ebelee_
Y’all really wanna make it seem like it’s the “immorality”/“illegality” of prostitution that makes it okay to justify these killings, but there are popular hotels where yahoo boys go, why isn’t anyone going to kill them? Yeah, I thought so. cause they’re not women #ProtectPhGirls
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Ms. Pauline@oghenepauline
This isn't time to start asking irrelevant questions. Women were killed here, and the killer(s) still out there. We need security operatives to do the job they are paid to do; protect every citizen.
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PHBoy in Lagos@Ezzybizzle
Why would this start happening now, what has changed, what is new, why in Port Harcourt, why target our females, why act this movie... Let this be heard in all the news.
Stop killing our girls
Stop killing our sister's
Stop killing our daughters.#ProtectPhGirls #ProtectPhGirls3
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Mazi Ibe@I_pissVodka
How did we even arrive here. I mean how did we assume the victims were prostitutes?? #ProtectPhGirls
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Et Tu@FejiroEsq
Even prostitutes deserve protection. So kill that foolish narrative that the girls being killed are prostitutes. #ProtectPhGirls
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The Top Dawg
@A_mekuz
I think we've gotten to the point in civilization where we shouldn't crucify people because of choices they make (as adults) if these choices don't affect us directly. So even if a lady chooses prostitution as a profession, she deserves to be killed? Very shity! #ProtectPhGirls
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Umeh and 99 others@UMEHoma
The main problem is not if the ladies are prostitutes or not, it’s the fact that serial killers are on the loose. Today it’s girls, tomorrow their thirst for blood can get to something “bigger”. Everyone, both individuals and security should be extra vigilant! #ProtectPhGirls
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Upcoming Bill Gates@FavoredSinner
I wonder what the hotels are using their CCTV for.
You should be able to help with providing pictures and all.
People can't just be killed in your hotels while you all have nothing else to do.
You should have a camera outside to show their cars and Number plates #ProtectPhGirls12
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