KWARA State government has
said there are increasing cases of rape in the state, with a record of more
than 1,000 rape cases every year.
Speaking while taking part
in a “Walk Against Rape” event, organised by an Ilorin-based group, Saab
Foundation, which advocated death penalty for rapists, an official of the state
Ministry of Women Affairs, Hajia Bilkis Sidiq, lamented that rapes cases being
recorded in the ministry featured more elderly people than young adults as
perpetrators.
Bilkis, a director in the
ministry, who represented the State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Alhaja
Ayinke Saka, at the event, said there was a booklet where such cases were
recorded, adding that the number kept rising on the list.
Tribune reports that 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, saying that the police and society still stigmatised victims (survivors).
Bibire, who started the
campaign against rape in January, said she had so far been involved with eight
survivors, among them three young boys, one of who was raped repeatedly by the
maid in their house.
The other two, she narrated,
were raped by their uncles.
While commending the “walk
against rape,” Hajia Bilkis said government remained committed to doing
everything possible to stem the tide of rape in the state.
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