From Justina Asishana, Minna; Nicholas Kalu, Abuja; Emma Elekwa, Onitsha, and Rasaq Ibrahim, Ado-Ekiti
From safety companies to the legislation courts and authorities homes, rape stays a buning problem.
The Niger State authorities on Thursday mentioned legal guidelines within the nation’s statutes aren’t sturdy sufficient to discourage rapists, contemplating the growing circumstances of assaults on ladies throughout the nation.
The secretary to the state authorities, Ahmed Ibrahim Matane mentioned this when receiving the Niger state chapter of the Nigerian League of Girls Voters who staged a peaceable march to the state Authorities Home in Minna, the state capital.
He mentioned, “What is going on throughout the nation right this moment concerning rape is that we wouldn’t have legal guidelines which are punitive sufficient and since there are not any examples to indicate that individuals are being penalised.”
The state chairperson of Nigerian League of Girls Voters, Dr Aisha Salihu Lemu mentioned, “aWe need stiffer punishment for rapists, punishment like dying needs to be pronounced on any rapists.”
Additionally within the state, a 21-year-old man Gambo Jubril was mentioned to have raped a seven-year-old lady in Minna.
The suspect reportedly first despatched the sufferer to purchase sachet water, and thereafter pulled her to an uncompleted constructing wher he allegedly defiled her.
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In Onitsha, Anambra State, a person, Ikechukwu Ekenta, 43, has been arrested for allegedly defiling his four-year-old daughter.
Ekenta was mentioned to have attacked the toddler when his expectant spouse was away in hospital to be delivered of their child.
In Ado-Ekiti, a Chief Magistrates’ Courtroom yesterday remanded 18-year-old Kunle Amujo in a correctional centre after being charged with sexually abusing a four-year-old.
Additionally in Ado-Ekiti, Segun Ige, 25, was arraigned in court docket for allegedly sodomising a six-year-old lady.
In Ibadan, Oyo State, a magistrates court docket yesterday remanded 29-year-old Sodiq Abiodun in police custody for alleged rape, amongst different expenses.
In Bauchi, police commissioner Lawan Jimeta suggested mother and father yesterday in opposition to sending their girl-child out to the streets to hawk, saying that it exposes them to sexual predators.
Jimeta gave the recommendation when a coalition of civil society organisations (CSOs) underneath the auspices of Girls’s Voice and Management (WVL), paid him a go to in Bauchi, the state capital.
“Dad and mom and guardians ought to desist from sending ladies out for hawking,’’ he mentioned, noting that the incidence of rape continues as a result of victims fail to talk out.
He urged NGOs and CSOs to have interaction in enlightenment and marketing campaign to curb the menace of violence in opposition to women and girls within the state and society at massive.
The commissioner gave the reassurance that his command would assign gender desk officers to take care of all sexual and gender-based violence complaints by the WVL within the state.
He additionally pledged to conduct common city corridor conferences with stakeholders on gender-based violence.
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