Niyola speaks on her molestation as a kid...

EME’s first lady, Niyola has revealed that she was molested when she was a little girl as she advocated for women rights in the country.

Niyola was speaking with Pearl on SoundcityCityDivas show.

She said: “I have been molested quite a number of times. Thankfully, I haven’t been raped. I have been molested by both people I never imagined would molest me…and obviously strangers as well. 

And it wasn’t once, it wasn’t twice. It wasn’t three times. But what helped me was that I started to try to figure out at that time why anybody would want to do that to me or to any female. I realised it was cowardice.

Alot of things could be done to prevent the situations and protect yourself. I remember for a very long time, I would never visit guys. And when I started to live alone when I was in school, you would never come to my room for any reason. 

For a very long time I was paranoid. But I realised that if you share your experience with people, your fellow women, you’ll find that it’s not that big a deal that you can’t come out & talk about it because it’s not your fault that someone tried to molest you. Such people should actually be punished and brought to book.”

Child sexual abuse involves an adult who pleasures their selves using a kid.

Child sexual abuse has been defined as every sexual activity between an adult and a child to meet the adult sexual needs or interest.

The United Nation has revealed that one out of ten girls have experienced sexual violence at early stage of their lifetime.

The National Demographic Health Survey (NDHS) report in 2008 suggested that over 25% of adolescent in Nigeria often experience the first sexual abuse at the age of 15.