Kaduna State Government said on Tuesday it would set up a rapid response team to handle cases of rape and ensure justice for victims. Hajia Hafsat Baba, the state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, made the disclosure in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna.
Baba said setting up the team was a development strategy to address the menace of rape in the state. “The response team would have all the stakeholders together – security agencies, ministries of Health, Education and Women Affairs – to quickly intervene in any reported case of rape.”
She said that the committee would be inaugurated soon. Baba described the rising cases of rape as alarming, noting that it was been fueled by cultists and people with deep psychological problem. “We don’t expect somebody who is in his right senses, an old person to be raping children as young as less than a year old.”
“We have been engaging with stakeholder including religious and…
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