Kwara State government raised the alarm at the weekend that cases of
rape were on the increase across the state.
The Director (Child) in the
state Ministry of Women Affairs, Hajia Bilkis Sidiq, said the state
recorded more than 1,000 rape cases annually.
“There is a booklet where such cases are recorded and the number
keeps rising on the list,” she said. Sidiq gave the figure while taking
part in a ‘Walk Against Rape,’ organised by an Ilorin-based group, Saab
Foundation, which is seeking death penalty for rapists.
The director, who represented the Commissioner for Women Affairs,
Alhaja Ayinke Saka, regretted that rapes cases being recorded in the
ministry feature more elderly people than young adults as perpetrators.
The founder of Saab Foundation, Miss Bibire Sa’adat, a 21-year-old
graduate of Mass Communication, expressed concern that there was no
effective law yet against rape while the police and society still
stigmatised survivors.
Sa’adat, who started the campaign against rape in January, said she
had so far been involved with eight survivors, among them three young
girls one of who was raped repeatedly by the maid in their house. The
other two, she said, were raped by their uncles.https://newtelegraphonline.com/kwara-records-1000-rape-cases-annually-ministry/
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