A group of women and men stormed Yaba Market on Saturday to protest harassment in the marketplace. Women who visited the market after the Yaba Market March have now reported a positive change in the behavior of the traders towards female customers.
Majority of the women who shared their testimony on Twitter said the traders behaved themselves and tried not to touch them. Those who tried to touch were cautioned by other traders.
Read some of the tweets below ;
Today was amazing, i was in yaba market and no one tried to touch me or call me “my colour”, and when i got to ojuelegba and a man tried to touch me, the moment i made my complaints, all the other men there started to insult him on my behalf, i was in awe. @OmogeDami God bless
— The dm Lawyer (@t_odeyinka) December 19, 2018
Oh. Went through yaba today with my sister. As usual yaba men started approaching us “buy jeans, buy shirt”.
Then one of them stopped & said “no touch them oh” then they stayed away. Fam, the feeling was so good , I almost shed a tear!! Thank you everyone & @MarketMarch !!— janey baby ?? (@Janettee_) December 19, 2018
At yaba today, I noticed they didnt touch me – at tejuosho, but when I got to the railway area, 2 guys -can be up to 15 before- touched me. However, I noticed the 1st 1 was very hesitant and quickly stepped back and the 2nd also quickly said, sorry I won’t touch you,come and buy
— Chimdimma Osuchukwu (@ChimdimmaIke) December 19, 2018
Almost the same thing happened to me yesterday. I even purposely went sef, I really didn’t need to buy anything but I was like, lemme see what would happen.
The closest thing to a catcall I got was, thank you fine girl. And that was for helping the seller look for change.
???— Talade Blackie ❤ (@talade_blackie) December 19, 2018
