Amidst Nigerian national assembly debate on the passage of a new “Indecent Dressing Bill”, one non-governmental organization called the Girls Power Initiative (GPI) is asking that the government instead pass a law on violence against women.

Professor Bene Madunagu, a GPI center director, said that bills that increase restrictions on clothing will, “grant intolerably dangerous powers of arrest and invasion of the most intimate privacies of the woman’s body imaginable to both police officers and ordinary citizens to undertake vigilante action against women they mere perceive to be indecently dressed”.

The Girls Power Imitative argues that the passage of the Indecent Dressing Bill will increase violence against women, recalling the recent rape and killing of a National Youth Service Corps member who was accused of wearing indecent clothing.

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