The Jigawa State Government has enacted the child protection law that prescribes the death penalty for rapists without the option of life imprisonment, IgbereTV reports.
Dr. Musa Adamu, the Commissioner for Justice and the Attorney General, disclosed this on Wednesday during an end-of-the-year press briefing in Dutse, the state capital of Jigawa.
According to him, anyone convicted of raping a child below the age of ten shall be sentenced to death with no other option.
“Earlier this year the Jigawa state Governor, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar has signed the Violence Against Prohibition Bill which prescribed the death penalty for rapists but with the option of life imprisonment. But recently the government has also signed the child protection law which prescribed the death penalty for anyone that raped a child below the age of 10,” Dr. Musa said.
