34% of Nigerians believe indecent dressing is main cause of rape

The NOI Polls, which is an opinion polling and
research organisation, established by the current
Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and named after her, yesterday released results from its poll
carried out in January 2013, in commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child.

NOI Polls revealed:

“In order
to commemorate this event and
honour the girl child this special day, NOI
Polls Limited released one of the polls we
conducted in the first quarter of the year
2013, which was focused on the challenges
faced by the girl child in Nigeria and indeed
the world over as a result of the incidence of
rape among women in the society.
34 percent of the participants believed that
indecent dressing was the main cause of
rape in the society; 18 percent believed
unemployment was the cause; nine percent
believed it was caused by lack of moral
values and another nine percent believed it
was caused by the inability to control sexual
urges; seven percent said it was caused by
faulty upbringing. Five percent of the
participants believed rape was caused by
illiteracy about women’s rights, ungodliness
and bad company."