Ozioma Patsy Onyenweaku is a Legal Practitioner and Child’s Rights Activist and Consultant. She studied at the University of Calabar and University of Lagos for her LL.B and LL.M respectively. She was called to the Nigerian Bar in year 2000.

Ozioma is the Founder of Child’s Rights Advancement & Protection Initiatives, CRAPI, an NGO for the Advocacy, Protection and Defence of the Rights and Welfare of the children, the women and the family.

Presently, through her organization, Ozioma advocates for the full implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Nigeria.

She has been giving voice to the voiceless, and offering pro bono services to pregnant and nursing mothers who come in conflict with the law in line with her desire to have prisons free of babies. In this end, presently, many pregnant women, nursing mothers and babies have benefitted from her pro bono services. She equally intervenes on behalf of widows, orphans and fatherless children who are being unjustly treated. 

Ozioma is also a Public Speaker and a Writer. Among her works are: Child Sexual Abuse: What parents must know and do; The Red Affair, Every Girl’s Handbook (which educates girls on how to face and handle developmental changes and challenges); and My Grandpa’s Gray Hair (through which she arouses the consciousness of our children to our cultural values, leanings and responsibility)

Ozioma has received Recognitions and Awards among which is the recent Outstanding Woman Award (Advocacy) 2018.