Nigerian Senate may soon enact death penalty law for rape in the country as the lawmakers are pushing for severe penalty for the menace ravaging the country’s landscape recently.
“We should review our laws and make it a death penalty and by the time we kill one or two persons, those who are raping will control that thing that is making them to rape,” said George Sekibo of Rivers State, during plenary on Tuesday.
The lawmaker made the statement while contributing to a motion on “Sexual abuse in Nigeria: a growing scourge”, sponsored by Rose Oko and 10 other senators.
Ms Oko had raised a point of order to present a motion on the increasing rate of reported rape cases and sexual assault especially on children across the country.
This is a fallout from the controversial case of Busola Dakolo, wife of the singer, Timi Dakolo, accuseing Biodun Fatoyinbo, the senior pastor at COZA of raping her when she was a minor.
Mr Fatoyinbo denied the charge, but stepped down as pastor.
Rose Oko, who represents Cross River, described rape as a “dastardly act” and said it is perpetrated on children as young as six months
