Group condemns raping of LAUTECH students
A WOMEN advocacy group, Women Against
Rape, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Exploitation
(WARSHE) has faulted serial cases of rape,
sexual assault and other forms of sexual
violence against students of the Ladoke Akintola
University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso
by suspected hoodlums.
The group described the action as brutal and
violation of rights of innocent girls.
There have been reports about some hoodlums
raping LAUTECH female students and forcing
their male counterparts to rape female students
after dispossessing them of their valuables.
Worried by the development, the state House of
Assembly last week mandated the police
command to beef up security in Ogbomoso
particularly around the campus and student
hostels.
The group in a statement made available to
reporters condemned the act describing it as
highly insensitive.
The group insisted that the Nigerian constitution
frowns seriously at the offense of rape, stressing
that it imposes life sentence as punishment for
anyone found guilty of the offence. It explained,
for emphasis, that the punishment is the same
for anyone found guilty of murder.
The statement, which was signed by its
Programme Officer, Titilope Olanrewaju, read in
part: “It is based on this that WARSHE thereby
considers this latest act of the LAUTECH rapists
as highly barbaric, inhuman and despicable,
particularly in this day and age.”
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