Bauchi Gov. Moves To Include Castration As Purnishment For Rapists

A few days after the Kaduna state Governor, Nasir El-Rufai announced that convicted rapists would be castrated, the Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed has followed suit.

The governor who lamented the alarming rate at which rape is happening in the state, said his administration will soon amend the state’s laws to include castration for convicted rapists.

Mohammed said the Violence Against Persons Prohibition bill which he recently signed into law will be taken to the State Assembly for an amendment to include the castration of rapists.

This he disclosed while speaking with the Minister of Women Affairs and Child Development, Dame Paulen Tallen, at the Government House, Bauchi on Thursday, September 24.

He said “The VAPP law has been signed and there are some impurities there and implementation is going to be very, very hard. I assure you that we will start the implementation.

Areas where we find out that the punishments are not adequate the way Kaduna did, we will amend it to include those aspects so that castration will also be part of our own (VAPP law).

According to him, it is better to destroy the instrument of rape by castrating culprits, because there have been situations where they are pardoned and they still go back to commit same crime.