The University of Nairobi in Kenya is being criticized for blaming a rape victim of ‘recklessness’
NAIROBI - A major Kenyan university has caused widespread public offense by accusing a student who was gang-raped of “recklessness” for walking back to campus after a night out.
The University of Nairobi’s security office sent a memo on Monday about robbery and rape reports. “In all three incidences reported since last year, a clear case of recklessness on the part of the female student can be drawn,” it said. Personalities including former presidential candidate Martha Karua and activist and rape survivor Adelle Onyango, founder of “No Means No”, tweeted their disgust at the memo.
Nearly 5,500 people signed up in a day to an online petition asking the university to see rapists as the “true antagonists”.“The memo was insensitive and does not represent the corporate values and image of University of Nairobi,” vice chancellor Stephen Kiama said in an online note on Wednesday.The spokesman for the National Police Service was not immediately reachable for comment on the incident.
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