After the rape case brought against Nollywood actor, Baba Ijesha, Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPPAN) has declared its support to the Lagos State Government.
TAMPPAN made its position known in reaction to the case of sexual assault on a teenage to which Olanrewaju James also known as Baba Ijesha confessed.
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A case of child defilement was filed at the Lagos State Police Command on the 19th of April, 2021 by a certain Princess Adekola Adekanya at the Sabo Police State.
Adekanya claimed that the culprit serially defiled the 14-year-old minor since she was 7.
The Theatre practitioners told Sunday Scoop in a statement signed by its Director of Research and Documentation, Yemi Amodu that it will never support any hideous act and is ready to led its hand to the state Government to ensure that justice is duly served.
Excerpts of TAMPPAN statement:
“We find it obligatory to condemn in totality the odious occurrence of paedophilia confessed to by Mr Olanrewaju James, aka Baba Ijesha, as confirmed by the police. Our association, TAMPPAN, is crestfallen about this act and will reproach and remonstrate the committer of such sexual harassment to prepubescent children.
“Considering the sensitivity of the case, which is still under investigation, TAMPPAN will never support all acts against what we preach and represent.
“As an association, we understand the mores and the social norms of our people and our behaviour will always be homiletic. Therefore, we would not fail to support the government in its bid to do justice towards ensuring that such ignoble acts are checked within our society.”
“We sympathise with the parents of the victim and also seize this opportunity to charge all parents to give their children or wards freedom to express themselves for the timely arrest of such horrible acts whenever such are committed,”
Meanwhile, actresses have reacted including Tonto Dikeh and Iyabo Ojo:
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