Ondo FOMWAN Calls For Special Court For Rapist

By Niyi Olutunde, Akure

The Federation Of Muslim Women’s Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN), Ondo State Chapter, has called on the government at all level to establish a special court for the trial of rape cases in the country.

Alhaja Aminat Akinpelumi, State President of FOMWAN, made the call in Akure while the association were protesting against increase in rape cases in the state.

According to Akinpelumi, it had become imperative for them to let their voices known and cried aloud as a parent to the government to find last solution to the rate of rape in the country.

The protesters who were carrying different placards such as: “Stop Raping Us We Are Your Mother, Women Are Not Trash Treat Us With Honour & Respect, Death Penalty For Rapists, Rapists Are Murderers among others.

Akinpelumi, who was represented by Alhaja Rafat Momoh, Chairperson Community Development and Humanitarian Services of FOMWAN in the state said that sexual assault had been added to the issue of domestic violence against women in recent time.

According to her, government at all level must rise to its responsibilities by taking the necessary action and enact law that will put offenders in their senses.

“Enough is enough, our girls, infants and women are being rape day by day, our government, judiciary, House of Assembly must do something.

“This molestation is much, this sexual violence is much and gender violence is becoming unbearable, we need a law that will offer last solution to it.

“Because when there is no law there is no sin but when there is law people will be cautious to obey the law and a nation can not survive, developed and sustained without carried women along,” she said.

Akinpelumi, therefore, admonished government to create a special court for rapists and build a rehabilitation home for victims of rape.

“When we have a special court for rapists it would delay the judgment because a judgment delay is a judgment denied because some of the victims are psychologically, emotionally and physically affected,” Akinpelumi said.

Also speaking, Alhaja Fausat Iyiola who said that government should set up a law and implemented it said that parents should also teach their children sex education in other to avoid being molested by their counterpart.

“Rape is against God will and we don’t want it in our societies because for someone to be rape it seems such person has been killed already.

“Government must help us set up the law and even implement that law and anybody that rape should face the consequences because a girl or woman or infant is being raped and killed and the man that do such should also be killed or to have severe punishment,” she said.

In her own suggestion, Mrs Khadijat Muftau, said that government should sensitised social medial through the internet providers stressing that poor parenting as well as the spread of pornography materials are the major causes of the issue of rape.

Muftau, who was the Secretary of Muslim Student Society of Nigeria (MSSN), however, called on well meaning Nigerians especially parents to wake up from their slumber and carried out their responsibilities by protect female child against rape in the country.