Governor
El-Rufai announced that he had signed the law today. Gov Nasir El-Rufai has
signed the Kaduna State Penal Code (Amendment) Law 2020 which provides for
stiff penalties, including surgical castration for convicted men who raped
children below 14 years.
The law, the
first of its type in Nigeria, also provides for bilateral salpingectomy for
female convicts. This involves the removal of the woman’s fallopian tube.
The law
amends the penal code No.5 of the state, which was passed in 2017.
In addition
to the punishment of castration, any male convicted for having sex with a male
child below 14 years, shall also be punished with death.
Only three
countries in the world punish rapists with castration. They are Indonesia,
Czech Republic and Ukraine.
Germany used
to have the law, but in 2017, it made it inoperative, following pressure from
the Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee.
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