SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, (THEWILL) – Nigerian actress, Eniola Badmus, reveals that she was almost raped while in her secondary school days.
The actress disclosed in an interview weekend that 95 percent of women are often subjected to sexual harassment in their lifetime.
The actress, who did not give any statistics to buttress her claim, to The Punch that sexual harassment is rampant in our societies because there are no drastic measures against the perpetrators.
She said: “Firstly, whether people are saying the truth or not, 95 per cent of females are sexually harassed on a daily basis. Because there hasn’t been stiff punishment over the years, this act has continued to linger from one generation to the other.
“As a young girl, a lot of things happened to me and I’ve also seen a lot of things. I grew up in a polygamous home and a lot of people lived with us. When I was in my final year in secondary school, I was almost raped. It was a very close shave. I was saved by a guy called Michael Akinyemi.
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“I don’t know where he is now but I can’t forget him. He was injured in the process but he saved me. I was practically five minutes away from being raped. I didn’t report then because of the stigmatization.
“The experience was really bad because my assaulter was bent on raping me, hence we struggled so much. I still remember the guy’s name but I would leave it out.”
