Perhaps, the next most rampant phenomenon stalking the land after kidnapping and armed banditry is rape.
No day has passed by without one or two or more cases of rape being reported in the media.
In fact, I have been trying to keep tabs on the heinous occurrences for a very long time but doing so amounts to scooping the wind with my hands! A difficult task!
The scenario has now taken a disgusting dimension: fathers are not only forcing themselves on their daughters but also getting them pregnant.
There was a recent incident of a father who nearly gave me a heart attack when I read that he allegedly defiled his seven-week-old baby in Umuahia.
No one in skirts is safe any longer. Not even older women. Grand moms who have lost all the attractive features are mauled down by the maniacs for whatever pleasure they derive.
Headmasters and teachers prey on the pupils in their care. An instance was recorded a couple of weeks ago in Kuje, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), where the head teacher of a private school allegedly raped his six-year-old pupil.
Security agents like soldiers and policemen who are paid to protect the citizens are also waist deep in the crime. The physically challenged folks are also not left out. They too are bent on proving that what able-bodied ones can do, they can also do… even better! Some randy armed bandits spare time to rape their (irresistible) victims as the icing on the cake… kidnappers do so too.
Minors have also keyed into the detestable pastime. Three or so days ago, an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court ordered that a 14-year-old boy be remanded in a correctional home pending legal advice for allegedly violating a neighbour’s daughter aged nine. While some rape their victims at gun or knife point, there are heartless ones who weaponise their manhood to murder their victims.
What inspired this piece were the recent accounts of incessant raping of minors in Benue state. The state has become a hunting ground for the raping of minors. Still fresh in our memories was the case of Ochanya Ogbaje, the 13-year-old student of Federal Government Girls’ Secondary School, Gboko, who was raped by a polytechnic lecturer and his son.
The poor girl who was living with her aunt married to the lewd polytechnic teacher had been subjected to the joint sexual abuse since she was barely seven.
The violation of Ochanya was started by the fugitive son. When the father got to know about the goings-on, he joined the queue rather than reprimanding the boy for sleeping with his cousin.
At the end of the father/son mass attacks, the poor girl died of complicated ailments. To the best of my knowledge, the runaway son is yet to be captured by the long arm of the law.
Also this year alone, on June 27 to be precise, a 14-year-old JSS1 student, Erdoo Ayorave, resident in Gboko, was raped, impregnated and forced into abortion by her aunt’s husband, using local herbs. The recourse to local herbs was to conceal the atrocity and that resulted in serious complications.
Gboko again! On August 7, 2019, a 36-year-old man named Aondover Kwaghnyion pounced on his 11-year-old house help and violated her. The mother of the girl promptly raised an alarm and Aondover was handed over to the police. It was Otukpo’s turn barely a week later.
A 60-year-old man, Clement Ogeyi, was nabbed by the vigilante for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl.Makurdi was next when a 10-year-old girl, Massengen, was raped and forced into premature motherhood after passing through a harrowing experience.
The unfolding saga climaxed on Monday, August 19, 2019, when a woman was believed to have been raped to death near a church in Makurdi and left naked.Years ago while reacting to the rape phenomenon, I proffered many remedies.
I cited an instance of an Indian woman who played along with a rapist that hunted her down in her own home. When the man was about to sheathe his weapon, the victim cleverly brought a very sharp razor blade and sliced off the manhood. She then rushed the phallus to the toilet and flushed it down.Another Indian woman applied the same treatment to her attacker.
But rather than flush the weapon down the toilet, she rushed it to the police station as a proof of the assault.In Nigeria, there are many penalties stipulated for rape attack in the extant laws.
They include various terms of imprisonment. Some people have canvassed for castration of those found guilty of sheathing their weapons in wrong places.
The government of Ukraine has gladdened my heart with a new law that will render convicted rapists of minors impotent.
According to the provisions of the law, convicted paedophiles and rapists will be forcibly castrated by chemical injection. This involves the forced injection of anti-androgen drugs consisting of chemicals that should kill off libido and sexual activities.
The new law will apply to all child rapes, including “unnatural” rape and sexual abuse of children above and below the age of puberty. The country has been experiencing rising cases of paedophilia and other sexual abuses running into thousands in the past two years.
Also in Alabama, the United States of America, the lawmakers have passed a bill to force paedophiles to undergo chemical castration. Is Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state reading me?
He should rush a bill to the state House of Assembly seeking a Ukraine and Alabama treatment for predators of minors in his domain. The state, and indeed, the whole country would be a better place without these sick men stalking the land and harvesting victims without any let or hindrance.
