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Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola.
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Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, signing a bill to create a register for sex offenders in the state. Pictured with him are Deputy Governor, Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire (centre) and Managing Partner of the Mirabel Centre, Itoro Eze-Anaba
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The Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola has signed a bill to create a register for all sex offenders in the state.
Fashola also identified Alimosho, Kosofe, Agege and Oshodi-Isolo as the areas with the highest cases of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in the state.
The governor signed the bill on Monday, December 1, and the sex offenders register, along with the already instituted crime data register, will enable law enforcement agents to better prosecute sexual offences committed within the state.
“I will like to tell those perpetrating the act in these local governments-Alimosho, Kosofe, Agege and Oshodi-Isolo to desist now because we would be coming after them. We will combat these crimes so that they do not become big crimes in the state,” Fashola said.
“Also, in order to ensure that criminals are monitored, we have created a crime data register which states everyone who has engaged the criminal justice system of the state, and we have close to 100, 000 offenders on that register.”
“And very soon, we would start deploying people to the data rooms in the police stations across the state to gather the bio-data of offenders including their photographs and others. This was why we have asked everyone to register so that before you employ anyone, you will know his track record,” the governor added.
Governor Fashola also called for collective effort to combat sexual crimes in the state
“And this is the time for everyone especially women to speak against it. This is the time for us to have a local enforcement unit; either we call it state police or whatever name we wish to call it, to protect the women from frequent abuse from their opposite gender,” the governor said.
The Attorney-General of Lagos, Ade Ipaye also stated at the event that no fewer than 113 cases of sexual violence were currently being prosecuted in High Courts across the state
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