ZAINAB ATOBA CALLS FOR DEATH PENALTY TO BE GIVEN TO RAPISTS
The President of The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Zainab Atoba has called on Kaduna State government to change the punishment for rape and defilement from 14 years to death penalty by hanging.
Atoba, during a courtesy visit to Alhaji Aminu Shagali, the Speaker Kaduna State House of Assembly said this had become imperative because the rate of violence against women and children in the society was getting out of hand.
Atoba said the daily report of violence, which includes sexual assault, battery, rape, defilement, trafficking, forced marriage, abuse and host of other vices against women and children must be tamed.
She said one in every three women had suffered some form of gender-based violence in her lifetime.
According to her, the statistics translates to a staggering one billion women globally who have been abused, beaten or sexually violated because of their gender.
