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By Emmanuel Awosika
The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Governor, has said the newly signed Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act will be revised to authorize castration of rapists.
He made this known while receiving Minister of Women Affairs and Child Development, Dame Paulen Tallen, at his office on Thursday.
The Governor lamented the rising rate of rape cases in the state, but hinted that the revised VAPP act would help stem incidents.
According to him, castration would remove the “instrument of rape” and was more effective than granting pardons to rapists.
His words: “The VAPP law has been signed and there are some impurities there and implementation is going to be very, very hard. I assure you that we will start the implementation.
“Areas where we find out that the punishments are not adequate the way Kaduna did, we will amend it to include those aspects so that castration will also be part of our own (VAPP law).
“Honestly, I think we better destroy the instrument of rape by going for castration because even when I pardon somebody, I discovered that he was a serial rapist.”
