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kalokalo (m)
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>:(Hmm, na wa o, see the kind of sentence a rapist of a 9-month old baby gets. Anyway, this is Nigeria  
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Develo-pment, Hajiya Saudatu Usman Bungudu, has decried the judgment handed down by an Upper Area Court in Lafia, Nasarawa State in the case of rape of a nine-month-old baby.
The court had sentenced the rapist, 27-year-old Stephen Takure, to 12 months in prison with an option of N3000 fine.
Speaking at the 2007/2008 ministerial press briefing in Abuja yesterday to highlight the achievements of the ministry, Bungudu said the judgment was “unbelievable”.
She said the National Judicial Council (NJC) had been petitioned to review the case.
According to her, “Such light sentence cannot deter others and as mothers, we must rise up and reject this reoccurring violation of our daughters.”
She lamented that despite the fact that Nasarawa State had passed the Child Rights Law, which advocates life sentence for rapists, the court deemed it fit to “practically set the rapist free in spite of the trauma he had caused this baby”.
Bungudu reiterated the commitment of the Yar’Adua administration to protect the rights of women especially against violence and all forms of domestic abuses.
The Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dr. Carol Ndaguba, in her goodwill message said the agency’s collaboration with the women ministry was very productive, especially as the agency is empowered to carry out enforcement measures to protect women and children.
The incidents of rape of children and women are on the increase and women groups are calling for the enforcement and strengthening of legislation concerning it.http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=109517 |
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angel101 (f)
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WHAT!!!!  |
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stillwater (f)
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Was the court on drugs?
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EloSela (f)
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Only in Nigeria. One can be a mass murderer at get off scot free. . . for enough naira.
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~Lady~ (f)
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Was the court on drugs? I'm beginning to think so Only in Nigeria. One can be a mass murderer at get off scot free. . . for enough naira. Not only in Nigeria. A 14 year old boy was beaten and killed by guards at a juvenile boot camp and the nurse was cheering them on, Florida, USA. It was caught on video tape, but they walked away FREE. Don't jump to conclusions and condmen Nigeria just like that. Not everything is from Bribery, some can be from plain stupidity. I believe the latter is the situation here. After that being saidWHAT AN OUTRAGE? ARE THEY KIDDING? WHAT KIIND OF INJUSTICE IS THIS TO THAT POOR BABY? |
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nwandolina (f)
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This is why people are forced sometimes to take the law into their own hands.
I can assure you that if this were in Igboland, that man will not live to pay that fine.
He doesn't deserve to live!
Any man that rapes any underaged person,in this case a mere infant deserves jungle justice if the courts are unable to punish such crimes.
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RichyBlacK (m)
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This is why people are forced sometimes to take the law into their own hands.
I can assure you that if this were in Igboland, that man will not live to pay that fine.
He doesn't deserve to live!
Any man that rapes any underaged person,in this case a mere infant deserves jungle justice if the courts are unable to punish such crimes.
Nwando, go check your facts right on Igbo laws and customs. The penalty for rape is exile not death. Even for murder, the penalty is exile - the maximum penalty. The death penalty has no place in Igbo laws and customs. The maximum penalty is exile or banishment - sometimes the whole family of the guilty are banished. |
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Kobojunkie
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I am going to go ahead and accept that you have never actually lived in Igbo land, have you LMAO!!!! |
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RichyBlacK (m)
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I am going to go ahead and accept that you have never actually lived in Igbo land, have you LMAO!!!! Well, I'm talking from the traditional perspective. Today, tyrants from Onitsha to Aba have hijacked the traditional way of life. Of course criminals are everywhere, who may lynch a suspected thief, burning his corpse in mob rage - that is not the traditional Igbo society I'm referring to. But the fact remains that traditional Igbo laws and customs do not have the death penalty. Mind you, human sacrifice, as practiced in traditional Igbo societies has nothing to do with sentencing someone to death, but everything to do with appeasing the gods. I don yarn you the koko  . |
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almondjoy (f)
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I thought Americans where the only rapists in Iraq and the rest of the world?  So Nigeria has pediphilic rapists too? No kidding! What is Yaradua's business with protecting the rights of women and children, when his compound is jam packed like a mormon compound full of wives and children he has not seen in like 20 years?  Yet, Nigerians will shout civil rights abuse and point fingers at others!Hypocrites! Too bad no moderator for this section. . . this thread belongs in the "Crime" section! I just realised this is a MOHADANA thread! God forbid ma presence here. . . . Zooms off. . . never to return! |
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SENATOR JD (m)
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3k?3k? for rape?nawa for this country at times :-[what message are we passing to the outside world, i onder how the parents of this babey would feel.
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FBS
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terrible!!! the case will be reviewed definitely, !!!!
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grafikdon (m)
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I just realised this is a MOHADANA thread! God forbid ma presence here. . . .
Zooms off. . . never to return!
LMAO!!!  |
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lucabrasi (m)
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the problem is that laws protecting the rights of the less vulnerable i.e women and kids need to be looked at and strenghtened but in a country where there is a lot of things wrong the bigger problems are being sorted out first and in adittion we still have leaders that are stuck to the old school who believe if a girl is raped cause she has a short skirt on ,she brought it on herself,or that a husband cannot be raped by the wife, we need moral crusaders and charity groups to keep putting pressure on the various organs of the government , even in the united kingdom of the 1800s children of below 12 were shipped with hardened criminals to australia and some were sentenced to life imprisonment before the likes of jeremy bentham and co kept on putting pressure on the govt and they strenghtened the laws
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D-reloaded (f)
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It's things like this that makes Nigeria disgusting
woman consensually sleeps with another man, she can be stoned to death with even Oprah having to intervene
However a BABY is raped by some psycho and all he does is pay a fine? The hell is this shit?
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vikiviko (m)
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The laws needs to be reviewed.
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