ABEOKUTA– Shabaq Ladies Foundation, a non governmental organisation has lent its voice in support for capital punishment for convicted rapists in the country.
The President of the foundation, Chief Mrs Olashalewa Bakare led a movement with other members of the foundation to three different markets, Kuto, Omida and Itoku to enlighten the market women on how to prevent their children from rape.
Mrs Bakare while speaking with the newsmen lamented high rate of rape cases un Nigeria, adding that it is high time a severe punishment is promugated as law to deter perpetrators of such dastardly acts.
She further charged the Federal Government not to take rape cases with levity, stressing that any convicted rapists should not be spared but be killed immediately.
“We are here because of the high rate of rape across the nation, and that is why we have decided to come to visit three different markets today because we believe that the best idea is meeting with the market women one on one so they can talk to their children when they get home and to educate them on how to prevent their children from being victims of rapists”
”We are here also to enlighten the children on the need to shun indecent dressing and to let them know the proper way of dressing and also to know what to wear out, even when they are indoors”
”We are hundred percent in support of death penalty for rapists, we are saying that any convicted rapists should be killed instantly because it is getting too much and we as NGO we are against rape, we cannnot fold our arms and watch rapists destroying the lives of the female teenagers, even the old women are not excluded. Can you imagine a 25-year-old man raping a mother of 70 years. It is so annoying, it must be put to an end.” She said
Mrs Bakare added that Shabaq Ladies Foundation has been in existence for 3years, claiming that the foundation, apart from campaigning against rape, has also helped the less priviledged by sponoring their education and providing school needs for them.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of the Foundation, Mrs Oluwaseunfunmi Olumide added that convicted rapists should not be sent to jail but be killed immediately.
Mrs Olumide said, “We know that it is not only famale child, because male children too fall victim to rape, so today we are campagning against rape on both gender”
”We know women plays important roles in home, that is why we are meeting them today so they can educate their children and tell them all to do to prevent their children from rape”
