The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State, Mr. Ade Ipaye has cautioned parents to be wary of rampant of attacks by rapists on minors across the state.
The Attorney-General who expressed deep worry over the act, disclosed that the act has reached an alarming rate where over 427 cases were officially reported last year alone.
The AG disclosed that for such figure to be officially reported calls for worry in spite of the fact that majority of the victims of such act or their parents hide the truth from the public to avoid embarrassment.
He said, though the Office of the Public Defender, OPD, had secured conviction of culprits in six cases recently. He however disclosed that his ministry had problems of assembling evidences to prosecute rape cases because most of the cases were reported late.
The state chief law officer expressed the determination of the state government to reduce crimes to the barest minimum in the state, which prompted the government to organise monthly security meetings as well as briefing Lagosians on how to be guided.
Answering questions on the position of the case of the DPO, Pen Cinema Police station, Mr. Segun Fabunmi, accused of shooting one Ademola Aderinde during the protest against increase in the pump price of fuel in 2012, Ipaye disclosed that apart from the delay the matter suffered from the police internal mechanism, the state had instituted a civil matter against the police to get compensation for the deceased family. [Vanguard]
