GBV: Akwa Ibom jails 99 rapists in five years

A full of 99 rapists person been thrown down bars successful Akwa Ibom State from 2020 to 2025 pursuing the transition of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Law successful the state.

Director, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Response Department and Secretary, Akwa Ibom State GBV Management Committee, Barr. Emem Ette, disclosed this astatine a property briefing to footwear disconnected the 2026 GBV Awareness Month successful the state, tagged, “Let’s End Gender-Based Violence Together.”

Ette said the authorities secured 102 convictions wrong the play — 99 rape convictions and 3 convictions for spousal battery.

Ette, portion noting the simplification successful incidents of GBV cases successful erstwhile months, regretted the spike recorded successful May, particularly kid rape cases, adding that the Committee collaborates with applicable stakeholders, including accepted rulers, to tackle gender-based unit successful communities. She added that accepted rulers person been trained connected GBV effect protocols and however to debar harmful customary settlements that undermine justice.

She besides advocated beingness imprisonment for rape offenders to service arsenic a deterrent, adjacent arsenic she noted that specified long...