Why rape convictions are few, by Lagos attorney general

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RapeStigmatisation and absence of therapeutic proof are two key issues hindering the rate of feelings in assault cases, the Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem has expressed.

He, in any case, said there had been in regards to 60 for each penny increment in reported instances of the wrongdoing in the most recent one year contrasted with last year.The lawyer general expressed this in Lagos yesterday at an instructions sorted out by the Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) to declare the begin of a mindfulness crusade program against residential and sexual savagery.


The subject of the project, which would be held for a month is "Advancing positive manliness, men can end sexual and sex based viciousness," Kazeem, who was spoken to by the substitute Chairman of the DSVRT, Mrs. Omotilewa Ibirogba, said the topic was picked in light of the fact that it was found deductively that a ton of consideration has been on females, unknowingly disregarding guys who have a noteworthy part to play in averting sexual and sex based brutality.

As indicated by the chief, the battle would start on September 8. It would incorporate a symposium on the part of men in completion Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) focused at artisans, market men and ladies, individuals from National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), cops, among others.

The lawyer general, who is likewise the director of DSVRT said the group completed an examination on sex convicts and detainees anticipating trial in February 2016 in jail offices in Lagos for SGBV cases.

The Public Relations Officer of Lagos State Police Command, Dolapo Badmos, in a location said one noteworthy worry to her charge is that a few pioneers of religious orders now manhandle minors by stowing away under profound exercises to perpetrate the wrongdoing.

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