Well, in Kaduna, the government has put its surgical knives where its mouth is: a man rapes, gets convicted, and if he does not appeal, he becomes a eunuch and ends up in prison for life, or die! What a clinical finishing to a heinous crime
The female convicts don’t go free. On conviction, for the offence of rape of a child, the Court shall punish the accused with Bilateral Salpingectomy and death.
Many men have often complained they were raped by aunties, househelps, and others as children, but official complaints have been hard to come by in this area, researchers say.
In the bill signed into law by Governor Nasir el Rufai, it is quite simple: it states, “Whoever commits rape of a child below the age of fourteen (14) years shall on conviction, be punished with Surgical Castration and death.
“Whoever has sexual intercourse with a male child below the age of fourteen years shall be punished with surgical castration and death.
Even rape of an adult, in this case above 14 years of age, leads to castration and life imprisonment in the law el Rufai signed on Wednesday.
“Where the convict is a child, the Court shall order as appropriate under the Children and Young Person Law Cap 26 Laws of Kaduna State 1991.
“Where the victim is a child, the Court shall in addition to the conviction, order that the convict be listed in the Sex Offenders Register to be published by the Attorney General.
“Where the Court is trying the offence of rape involving a child below the age of fourteen years, corroboration of a medical report shall be necessary. The Kaduna State Penal Code (Amendment) Law 2020 amends the Penal Code Law (No.5) of Kaduna State, 2017 by substituting section 258 as follows…”