The Ekiti State Government has urged the state House of Assembly to rework the Gender-Based Violence Law (GBV) to carry more stringent capital punishment such as medical castration of rapists and defilers.
This, according to it, would be an addition to life jail-term prescribed in the law.
The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Wale Fapohunda, who stated this at the public hearing organised by the House Committee on Women Affairs of the Ekiti House of Assembly yesterday, said the amendment into the bill sought to include medical castration, compulsory psychiatric test and disqualification of offenders from benefiting from any government prerogative of mercy granted to convicts.
The wife of the governor, Mrs. Bisi Fayemi, who was at the public hearing, said the amendment of the Gender-Based Violence (Prohibition) Law, 2011, to include further capital punishments, would deter the perpetrators of the crime.
She said her office had been overwhelmed with complaints bordering on all forms of violence, particularly against women since 2018, hence the amendment of the bill becomes imperative to give the victims voices and for offenders to be held accountable.
