The Jigawa State Government has enacted the child protection law that prescribes the death penalty for rapists without the option of life imprisonment.
The Commissioner for Justice and the Attorney General, Musa Adamu, said this during an end-of-the-year press briefing in Dutse, the state capital of Jigawa state.
According to him, anyone convicted of raping a child below the age of ten shall be sentenced to death with no other option.
He explained that the ministry had received a total number of 196 case diaries while 178 pieces of legal advice were prepared in respect of the case diaries, received.
The commissioner also lamented the delay in criminal litigation as one of the major challenges of the ministry, which he said is not peculiar to Jigawa State.
Adamu noted that the problems associated with the delay in criminal litigation can be reduced by the proper use of technology.
