National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has published names and photos of convicted sex offenders, including rapists in Nigeria.
The names and photos were published via the agency’s Twitter handle on Sunday.
Here are the identities of convicted sex offenders as seen on the Nigeria Sex Offender Register. @naptipnigeria Is determined to naming and shaming all sex offenders.
More names will be published as the convictions keep coming in.#saynotorape🚫 #endrape #sexoffenderregister pic.twitter.com/7y3PACKxIr— Dame Julie Okah-Donli (@DGNaptip) June 6, 2020
From the names published, six offenders were convicted in 2019 while four others were convicted in 2020.
A further breakdown of the published names showed that the offenders are from Ekiti, Abuja, Kano, and Lagos states.
Among those named is a former supervisor at Chrisland School, Adegboyega Adenekan, 47, who was jailed for 60 years for defiling a two-year-old child.
Others are Olaoluwa David Ajibade, Vincent Akande, Abdulkareem Yahaya Danmallam, Yusuf Francis Kyemang, and Basiru Adeyanju, Friday Elijah, Shehu Abubakar, Asateru Gabriel, and Emeka Akile.
In the post, NAPTIP assured Nigerians that it is committed to ending rape and sexual abuse.
NAPTIP Director-General, Julie Okah-Donli, had earlier urged Nigerians to report rape cases within their vicinity to the agency or the nerest police station.
According to her, reporting cases of rape is the only way to curtail the abominable act, adding that the agency will act on reported cases.
She said;
Rapists are now getting away with their illicit acts along with murder; these cases of domestic servitude are cases that take place behind closed doors.
Our job in NAPTIP is to protect Nigerian men and women, we are not going to compromise our work if they report such cases and we will ensure justice is done.
Okah-Donli expressed that;
Rape cases are not reported because of stigmatisation of the victims and this makes the cases rise. And very soon, the names of rapists will be published with their pictures in the media.
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