On the 25th of November 2019, a standstill rally was organized by a group of courageous young Nigerians in a bid to get the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act domesticated in all states. This heroic act, however, was met with criticism which may have resulted from ignorance or the rumours and smear campaign surrounding the Arewa me too movement which claims that the movement which originally aims at breaking the culture of silence in the North is actually a group sponsored by the LGBTQ ‘to bring down the values of Northern Nigeria’ or it could have been because a lot. . .

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