Human Right Abuse: Why Ms Iyaji is declared wanted, want Int’l Bodies’ quick intervention

By Christian Oghenemaro

The Fundamental Human Rights in Nigeria, protected under the 1999 Constitution (Chapter IV), guarantee essential freedoms like the Right to Life, Dignity, Personal Liberty, Fair Hearing, and Privacy, alongside freedoms of expression, religion, assembly,  freedoms of movement, to move freely within Nigeria and leave/enter and protection from discrimination, based on ethnicity, origin, sex, religion, or opinion.

The above is not the case with Miss Iye Mary Anne Iyaji, as her fundamental human rights have been tampered with.

Ms Iyaji, an officer of the Federal Fire Service was suspended unjustly by her office for alleged lesbianism and possession of Government Property but information reaching us from her office from a reliable source who confided in our correspondent claimed that she is being witch-hunted by some of her senior colleagues.

According to him, they wanted to have sex with her but because she refused, they decided to frame her up. They cooked up fictitious stories against her hence she has to quickly run to a safe haven for the fear of being attacked.

Our source claimed that Iyaji’s fundamental human rights were seriously trampled upon. “She suffered unfair discrimination, she was threatened on several occasions because she refused to yield to their demands of having sex with them. She was not given fair hearing by her accusers who conspired with other subordinates. Iyaji is not in custody of any government property, except her identity card. She has a good record and never been accused of stealing.”

Meanwhile, the Federal Fire Service has reported her to the Police when they noticed her absence and couldn’t locate her whereabouts, hence her sister was arrested, molested and treated her like a common criminal, so as to succumb to their demands.

The police report claimed that on 10th of September 2025, Mr. Monday Samuel reported Iye Marie-Ann Iyaji’s sister, Iyaji Ejura Judith to the police for conspiracy. He claimed that Judith conspired and aided her sister, who is into lesbianism and theft of government properties from arrest. As at press time, she was still in police detention in Ikeja, Lagos.

Our investigation shows that Iyaji is not the first to suffer such victimization. So many ladies, especially single ladies in uniforms are also suffering these heinous acts from their male senior counterparts who want to have carnal knowledge of them by all means. Many have suffered discrimination, many of them including married ones are presently in the hospital suffering from depression because of what they go through in their offices, that is probably why Iyaji doesn’t want to have such experience.