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11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by dustmalik: 2:33pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Nigeria’s Senate passed a bill Wednesday that approved life imprisonment for rapists and those who have sex with children under 11 years old, a Nigerian newspaper reported. The legislation could help build a stronger law against sexual crimes in the West African country where scores of women and children are subject to rape and sexual violence. The bill included various sentences and fines for other sexual offenses such as incest, child pornography, sexual tourism, gang rape, sexual harassment, prostitution of mentally disabled persons, lacing drinks with drugs with intent to sexually abuse, and deliberately infecting someone with HIV and other diseases. The bill also mandated storing names of sex offenders in a database, Premium Times reported. “Culprits would never be employed in any institution where they may pose a risk to unsuspecting persons. You can see that the penalties are weighty,” Sen. Chris Anyanwu, the bill’s sponsor, told the Nigerian newspaper Wednesday. The bill also provides a witness protection program to safeguard victims and witnesses in trials for sexual crimes. The bill’s passage followed a report by Nigeria’s Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, which called for stricter penalties for sexual offenders, the Premium Times reported. Rape and underage sex is widespread across Nigeria, and the country has long lacked strict legislation to provide legal backing for prosecuting sexual offenders. In one case, a pastor in Edo state was sentenced to just five years in prison for raping and impregnating a 12-year-old in 2013. The western state recorded 96 rape cases between January 2012 and August 2014, but only nine convictions were secured, according to an investigation by Premium Times. “As the law stands now, there are lots of loopholes for offenders to escape convictions,” Henry Idahagbon, the attorney general and commissioner for justice in Edo, told the newspaper last year. The new Sex Offences Bill could change that. The bill is expected to pass in Nigeria’s House of Representatives on Wednesday and then will need President Muhammadu Buhari’s signature to become effective. However, similar legislation fell short after passing in the Senate last year, under former President Goodluck Jonathan’s watch. Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/nigerian-senate-approves-life-imprisonment-child-rapists-1953232 1 Like |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by INTROVERT(f): 2:34pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by Tattooboy: 2:35pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Ok |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by Nobody: 2:36pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Paedophiles are on the loose in the Parliament. How on earth would any lawmaker okay sex for eleven years old girls.?? This is madness. 1 Like |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by Mogidi: 2:39pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
The bill was meant to help defenseless children but has inadvertently helped the Yerimas. From Northern Christians to Southern Christians, the standard age of marriage in Christian household is 20. Am sure the age on this Bill was kept low to guarantee passage. |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by Nobody: 2:41pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Am a christian and not a pedo cum terrorist |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by Nobody: 2:43pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Am not surprised... I expected this |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by RaDaZaBaNa(m): 2:51pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
OK |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by tijjanioyan: 2:55pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Mogidi:and chris anyanwu is a muslim? 10 Likes |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by jascon1(m): 3:13pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
The age was kept too low. It should have been 18 and not 11 |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by SUBWAY101(m): 3:15pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
tijjanioyan: The fòol Moses Mogidi is a bigot. 8 Likes |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by Mogidi: 3:17pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
SUBWAY101: Why na, we dey quarrel? |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by Rumpelstiltskin(m): 3:31pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Lobatan!! Can someone remind me again which political party Sen. Chris Anyanwu belong to? 3 Likes |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by cy4cent(f): 3:58pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
If senator Chris Anyawu's daughter is sexually active at 11 years, I hope she will be happy. she is supposed to be a mother, advocating for the right to education, n protection of female children at that age. What does an 11 years old child know? some are even barely out of primary school. what happened to at least 15 or even 18 years? I wonder the kind of society such women are building!! |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by duwdu: 4:15pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Thanks, @dustmalik, for highlighting the sponsor of the bill. Much respect. P34c3 ..... ... |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by duwdu: 4:34pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Mogidi: Senator Chris Anyawu, the originator of the now obnoxious Bill, is a "so called southern" Christian. So, what, exactly, is your point? And in response to relevant posters: Even if Anyawu's original intention with the Bill was to cover children/persons up to 18 years of age, say, then she ought to have had the responsibility to withdraw the Bill if it was going against the spirit of her intent. She apparently never did such a thing. Which calls into question: what was the real purpose of Sen. Anyawu in sponsoring the Bill? P34c3 ..... ... 4 Likes |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by ramdris(m): 4:39pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Perhaps if the outgoing senators have taken their time to go thru dis bill properly, they would have done justice to it. The yeye pple hurriedly pass enormous amount of bills within hours and this is the result. Thank God GMB will still need to sign it into law and sure he will push it away. 1 Like |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by duwdu: 4:40pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
SUBWAY101: One with an open mind would tend to agree with this. P34c3 ..... ... 2 Likes |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by Mudorsis: 4:50pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
@Poster Please can you show me/us where it was written in the bill that 11 yrs is the legal age for sex . . Bunch of fuccck*ng illiterates and retards who cant read and comprehend to save their lives . . SMH. 1 Like |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by OrlandoOwoh(m): 5:00pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Mogidi:Mogidi, if a northern muslim had sponsored the bill, you would have been insulting Islam and Hausa/Fulani in this thread. @topic: How could a woman sponsor such a bill? Na wa o. 6 Likes |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by naptu2: 5:16pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
OrlandoOwoh: Don't fall for the s.tupid sensationalism of these silly bloggers. The bill does not make 11 years the "legal age for sex". 2 Likes |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by Chinum: 7:16pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
cy4cent: Abeg Chris Anyanwu na man or woman. |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by ItsMeAboki(m): 8:57pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Mogidi: Your bigotry has obviously clouded your reasoning to the extent of pushing you to publicly make false statements such as the above (in bold) in order to satisfy your hate for others. Pls refer me to any authentic Christian authority e.g. Bible or Sacred Ruling/Teaching that standardised or set the minimum age for marriage for Christians to 20 years. 4 Likes |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by Mogidi: 9:04pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
[s] ItsMeAboki:[/s] I don't know any variant of Christianity that allows for the betrothal of prepubescent girls, if you do please let me know. It only happens in certain religions. |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by tijjanioyan: 9:26pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
D sober part of it is dat all d actors & actress of dis so called shameful bil wont allow their daughters marry until they bagg at least 1st degree.then who is fooling who? |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by sammyj: 10:02pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Se oro niyi, Does this mean that having sex with 12 years and above will attract no penalties !!! |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by cy4cent(f): 11:13pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Chinum:WOMAN 1 Like 1 Share
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Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by SUBWAY101(m): 11:25pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Mogidi: F.uck off you unrepentant bigot. Animal 1 Like |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by babadee1(m): 11:49pm On Jun 06, 2015 |
Pls people should stop spreading false information on this forum. The age of consent for sexual intercourse in Nigeria is 16 years. This bill does not change that in any way. Any person over 18 who has sexual intercourse with a minor under 16 is still guilty of statutory rape under this law. The bill goes further to say that if the victim is under 11 years of age then the offender is liable to a punishment of life in prison. That is what the Anyanwu bill does, it doesn't redefine the age of consent for sex. 1 Like |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by naptu2: 4:42am On Jun 07, 2015 |
naptu2: 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by naptu2: 5:14am On Jun 07, 2015 |
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Re: 11 Years Legal Age For Sex Bill: Sen. Chris Anyanwu Sponsored It by naptu2: 5:25am On Jun 07, 2015 |
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