No fewer than 83 rape cases are pending at Katsina
State High Courts as at January, this year, the state Commissioner for Justice,
Barrister Ibrahim Dantsoho has said.
Dantsoho told newsmen yesterday that of the figure, High Courts in Katsina metropolis have 21 and insisted that some concrete measures needed to be taken against the menace.
The commissioner who decried the alarming rate of rape in the state said that was what informed the state government’s decision to amend the law which provides for stiffer penalty to persons guilty of committing rape.
He said the amended law provides for stiffer penalties to a convict, emphasising that the measure is aimed at discouraging people from committing the offence.
Dantsoho said the amendment provides for a minimum of 14 years or life imprisonment with fine N50,000 and compensation to the victim by anyone found guilty of committing the offence but however lamented that it was sad that parents, guardians or husbands of rape victims often prevent them from approaching the court to seek legal redress insisting that such action fuels the impunity.
“Some of these criminals, after committing the crime, go to the extent of killing the victims. Government cannot allow this to continue,” Dantsoho said even as he appealed for collective efforts to “at least reduce the incidence of rape to the barest minimum.”
Source: Leadership
Dantsoho told newsmen yesterday that of the figure, High Courts in Katsina metropolis have 21 and insisted that some concrete measures needed to be taken against the menace.
The commissioner who decried the alarming rate of rape in the state said that was what informed the state government’s decision to amend the law which provides for stiffer penalty to persons guilty of committing rape.
He said the amended law provides for stiffer penalties to a convict, emphasising that the measure is aimed at discouraging people from committing the offence.
Dantsoho said the amendment provides for a minimum of 14 years or life imprisonment with fine N50,000 and compensation to the victim by anyone found guilty of committing the offence but however lamented that it was sad that parents, guardians or husbands of rape victims often prevent them from approaching the court to seek legal redress insisting that such action fuels the impunity.
“Some of these criminals, after committing the crime, go to the extent of killing the victims. Government cannot allow this to continue,” Dantsoho said even as he appealed for collective efforts to “at least reduce the incidence of rape to the barest minimum.”
Source: Leadership
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