disclosed that it recorded 45 reported
cases of rape in 2013.
One of the reported cases of minor
defilement happened in December 2013
in Oba-Ile, a town near Akure in which a
71 year old hunter, Kayode Ganiyu lured
a 6 year old girl into his one room
apartment with ten Naira and raped her.
One of the victims of rape, 16 year old
Senior Secondary School One Student in
Akure narrateed her ordeal in the hands
of rapists.
She was gang raped by six young men
identified as members of a cult group
called Blue angels. They recorded the
evil act on their phones and threatened
to post it on the internet if she exposed
them.
They were also using this to further
have carnal knowledge of the girl until
they were caught and paraded by
Officers of Ondo State Command of the
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence
Corps.
Olumide Abudu, a journalist based in
Akure is of the view that negligence on
the part of the parents in the upbringing
of their daughters who dress seductively
as a major cause of rape.
Many of such cases of rape and
defilment occur often but are not
reported partly because of the victim
having a fear of being stigmatised.
On her part, Adenike Daramola, a
student of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo,
Ondo State told Channels Television that
ladies are exposed to rape by both
young and elderly men. She however
advised ladies to dress well, without
exposing sensitive parts of their bodies.
A mother, Deaconess Victoria Olagunju
further called on parents to take
adequate care of their children, noting
that rapists use certain things to entice
the girls in order to rape them.
She called for a thorough punishment of
anyone caught committing the act so as
to deter others.
An Akure based Legal practitioner,
Barrister Ayodele Ojopagogo, likewise,
bemoaned the provocative manner in
which people, especially youths, both
males and females dress nowadays.
He advocated life imprisonment for
rapists; and similarly, between 7 to 14
years jail term, without an option of fine
for ladies who dress indecently,
exposing the sensitive parts of their
bodies.
However, a spokesperson of Ondo State
Police Command, ASP Wole Ogodo,
stressed that a decent man would never
rape for any reason. He added that
although, some ladies dressed
indecently, which expose them to being
victims of rape, that is not enough
reason for rape.
He maintained that the Police was
working assiduously to ensure rape
cases are brought low in the State.
Ogodo also called on the judges and
magistrates to give appropriate
punishment to rapists as this would go
a long way in curbing the rising cases of
the crime.
Speaking to Channels Television on the
menace, the Director of Public
Prosecutions in Ondo State Ministry of
Justice, Mrs Adesola Adeyemi-Tuki,
said that though, indecent dressing
could lead to rape, “it is part of the
constitutional rights of every Nigerian to
dress as they wish without being
sexually molested” .
The chairperson of Ondo State Chapter
of the International Federation of
Women Lawyers, Adeyemi-Tuki, insisted
that under the Criminal code of Nigeria,
the punishment of rape was life
imprisonment.
She also advocated for stiffer penalties
such as castration and death sentence
for rapists.
She equally prescribed that men who
engaged in defiling little children be sent
to asylum as they must be suffering
from mental disorder.
Moreover, she declared her support for
the introduction of dress code for civil
servants as indecent dressing had
become very rampant among female
workers.
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