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Nigeria governor approves law to castrate, remove fallopian tubes of child rapists

A 46-year-old man from Bulapesa Sub-Location in Isiolo Town has been arrested on suspicion of defiling an 18-month old baby. [PHOTO | FILE]

The governor of Nigeria’s north-western Kaduna state, Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, has signed a law providing tough penalties for convicted rapists. The law provides for surgical castration and death sentence for those convicted of raping a child below the age of 14. Where the victim is over 14 years, the law provides for surgical castration and […]