Rape Increase: Nigerian State Set To Sign Law For Death Sentence On Culprits

The Nigeria State of Kaduna is set to sign a law clamping a death sentence on anyone convicted of rape.Governor Nasir el-Rufai made this know following the increase in rape cases across the country where no fewer than ten victims have been raped to death in the past two weeks at different locations.

Also, it would be recalled that a serial rapist in Kano State in the same northern part of Nigeria like Kaduna was recently apprehended where he confessed to having sexually assaulted no fewer than forty women recently.
Thus, the governor assured residents of the state that he would go to any length to have the bill on death sentence for rapists signed into law.

Hajia Hafsat Baba, the Kaduna State Commissioner for Human Services and Social Development, disclosed this in her verified Twitter handle on Friday.
Baba stated that the cases of rape have assumed a very worrying situation that several attempts to end the menace are proving difficult.

Baba affirmed that the new law has already got the governor’s blessings, saying, the governor is ready to sign it into law and end the menace.
Quoting from the governor’s Twitter handle he said, “No matter how tired and exhaustive I am, I will sign the death penalty by hanging for rapists because they shouldn’t live with us in Kaduna.

“We are committed to ending rape by all means in Kaduna State. Are you?”
Meanwhile, it would also be recalled that Kaduna had witnessed a series of rape cases in recent times; not long ago a proprietor of a school had raped a minor who happens to be a pupil in his school. 

Also, about six boys had raped their childhood friend after drugging her, dumped her by the roadside after violating her. Prominent among the cases In Kaduna was that of an adult,  a 45 years old man who raped a two-year-old girl to death in Zaria.

The man who was a neighbor to the parents of the toddler had carried the baby from the house, raped her for forty-five minutes thereby killing her in the process.