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The Parliament of the Nigerian state of Kaduna has approved a bill that provides for surgical castration for those convicted of rape and the death penalty for those convicted of raping children under the age of fourteen.
Kaduna MPs have amended the Penal Code to include that anyone who “rapes” or “has sexual relations” with a child under the age of fourteen “will be punished upon conviction with surgical castration and death.”
The bill also states that, if a woman is convicted of maintaining these relationships, “she will undergo a salpingectomy – removal of the fallopian tubes – and death,” according to the Nigerian newspaper ‘Daily Trust’ .
It also points out that in cases of rape of victims over fourteen years of age, the condemned will be punished with “surgical castration and life imprisonment”, a project that has yet to be signed by the state governor, Nasir Ahmad el Rufai, to enter into force.
El Rufai himself recently defended the need to apply castration to those convicted of rape, arguing that, otherwise, “there is the possibility” that this person will commit crimes again after leaving prison.
The governors of Nigerian states declared a state of emergency in June for rape and sexual violence against women and children, as cases increased amid restrictions imposed in some areas of the country to contain the spread of the pandemic of coronavirus.
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