Hardly any week passes, without a report of a rape incident. Sadly, in recent times, the rapists are no more contented with having unlawful carnal knowledge of their victims; they now go ahead to snuff life out of them.
Like corona virus, the incidents of rape in our country, Nigeria, is turning a pandemic, and it is high time the local, state and federal authorities rise up to the challenge.
Few days earlier, the commissioner for water resources in Kogi State, Abdumumini Danga, was accused of raping a woman, who sought succour from him, during the lockdown. In some disgusting instances, it is the biological fathers that rape their children. The madness, for that is what rape can be equated to, has also overtaken the sensibilities of misguided young men, who rape persons old enough to be either their mothers or their grandmothers.
Of note, the state assemblies whose members must buy into any proposed amendment of the punishment for rape, have not been reported to be as aggrieved as their counterparts in the National Assembly. So, the enraged lawmakers must portray their angst, by amending the criminal laws, to gift the country and the states, modern laws to protect the dignity of the womanhood.
Two of such requirements is to “prove penetration” and the “requirement of corroboration.” One such provision, is section 218 of the criminal code, applicable to many states in the southern Nigeria. For the offence of rape, regardless of age, the courts have held the requirement of corroboration as sacrosanct. The challenge is that most rape cases don’t have standby corroborators.
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