BY MONSUR OLOOOPEJO

LAGOS State Government yesterday advocated that anyone found guilty of rape case, especially pedophiles, be sentenced to life imprisonment without option of fine, saying “It will help the country to achieve zero case of rape.”

The government spoke through the Deputy Governor, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, at a briefing to mark the International Day of the African Child 2014, with theme “A Child-Friendly Quality, Free and Compulsory Education For All Children in Africa”, in Alausa Secretariat, attended by the Commissioner for Information and strategy, Mr. Aderemi Ibirogba and the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Mr. Hakeem Bello.

According to her, “Recently, I made an assertion that with the increase in rape cases and sexual harassment, there is perhaps the need to make psychiatric test compulsory for some men as part of the routine check, especially the perpetrators. I notice sociopathic tendencies in some men, a situation where a father impregnates his own daughter or a blood brother impregnates his sister or an uncle impregnating his cousin cannot be explained and calls for concern.

”I am however optimistic that with the stringent sentence of a life imprisonment with no option of fine for offenders, I think there will be a maximum reduction in rape cases.


Source: Vanguard