Senator Florence Ita-Giwa has advocated the cutting off of genitals of child-rapists.
The former Special
Adviser on National Assembly Matters to former President Goodluck Jonathan,
spoke as a special guest at ‘Magnenta and Black Art & Fashion for Charity’,
a fund raising exhibition for Mirabel Centre, held at the British Council,
Lagos.
Reacting to accounts
of rape by two survivors at the event, the senator said: “The lady said she was
happy that she got justice for her four-year-old daughter who was raped by two
men but, in my mind, if I were a judge and a man is brought to court for raping
a child, he will receive capital punishment. But I will say, `don’t kill him,
rather let him live his life in pain, let his organ be cut off’.
“He should not be
allowed the pleasure of using that organ anymore. If the organ is not cut off,
at the end of his term in prison, he will use it on other children. Fortunately
for them, I’m no longer in the Senate but I will find a way to get it into the
chamber. This is the proper way to end the evil of rape in the society”.
Also speaking, the
Managing Partner at Partnership for Justice and Founder Mirabel Centre, Mrs
Itoro Eze-Anaba, said that the situation had reached a stage that girls are no
longer safe in their homes since fathers and uncles rape them.
“Rape is not a girls’
or women’s issue, it is a community issue because boys are also being raped
daily. The implication is that if we do not end it, the abused may end up as an
abuser and a time will come when the society will be filled with abusers”, she
said.
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