Governor Kayode Fayemi says no person convicted for a sex offence,
such as rape, in
any part of the state would enjoy his powers of prerogative of
mercy anymore.
Fayemi stated
this while signing into law the Sexual Violence Against Children (Compulsory
treatment and care for child victims of sexual violence), recently passed by
the state House of Assembly.
A statement
quoted the governor as lamenting the rate at which women and the girl child are
being violated in the country describing it as an act of extreme violence that
must be addressed urgently before it gets out of hand.
In the drive to
combat the scourge nationally, Fayemi calls for a state of emergency to deal
more effectively with the menace.
He directed the
State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Wale Fapohunda, to
henceforth oppose bail or plea bargaining for rape offenders in the state.
He explained
further that his administration had established a Register of Sex Offenders of
all persons convicted of acts of sexual violence and adopted a policy of
publicly naming and shaming convicted sex offenders as well as putting
machinery in motion to strengthen the Gender-Based Violence Management
Committee to oversee the implementation of the GBV Law
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