Wednesday 1 October 2014

Female lawyers demand castration of rapists

A new dimension has been introduced into punitive measures suitable for those found guilty of rape as International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) called for the castration of rapists to serve as deterrent to others.

Making the demand, the Niger State Chairperson of the body, Magistrate Suleiman Takuma, urged the state’s lawmakers to promulgate a law that would provide for the castration of rape offenders as minimum punishment, insisting that life imprisonment as proposed in some quarters was not enough for the crime.
Takuma made the call in Minna at a workshop on Establishing Sustainable Child Rights Clubs in Schools, organised by Children Rights Advocacy Guild of Nigeria (CRAGON).
She argued that castration of men involved in rape was necessary, insisting that most of the minors being raped were between the ages of one and five years whose womb were permanently destroyed in the process.
Takuma stressed the need to step up punishment for rape-related cases to curb increasing cases of rape in the country, adding that existing laws were too weak to deter offenders.
She argued that situations whereby men of about 50 to 60 years of age would rape minors was totally unacceptable and therefore required drastic laws to check such ugly acts.
“We have visited the speaker of the state House of Assembly for the purpose of putting in place this law and he has advised us to sensitize the people on such law,” she said.


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