Governor Fashola opens registration for sex offenders in Lagos State

Thanks to Lagos State Governor, Raji Fashola who is the first Nigerian

governor to open a sex offenders register.





He signed an executive

order to provide for compulsory reporting of actual or suspected child abuse and establishment of a sex offenders' register at the State House, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja, yesterday Dec. 1st.





He also identified Alimosho, Kosofe, Agege and Oshodi-Isolo Local Govt as the councils with the highest cases of Sexual and Gender Based Violence crimes in the state.





Below is what Fashola said



"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.

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 a 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. 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 the

opposite gender. This is the time for women to rise up and challenge employers who sets

unimaginable targets for their female employees. These were targets they could not set for men," he said



The Lagos State Attorney-General Mr Ade Ipaye added that



"We monitoring one hundred and thirteen 113 sexual violence cases currently at the High Court. The Team is working actively to ensure prompt prosecution of these cases. The major aim of the Sex Offenders Monitoring Programme and the Mandated

Reporter policy is to reduce repeat cases by providing names and personal details of convicted sex offenders in the State to a central database.





The Database will be

accessible to individuals and organizations that need information. For example, School proprietors who want

to recruit can access this

Register as a form of

background check.





"The Mandated Reporter

policy will make it compulsory for all State School Administrators, Counsellors, Teachers, Social Welfare Officers and any other official of the State Government

having any dealings with

children to report any

suspected or actual child

abuse or neglect to the

Attorney-General's office.





It is envisaged that the Lagos State Sex Offenders Register will be

open and maintained by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice in partnership with the Lagos State Judiciary, the Nigerian Prisons and the Nigerian

Police". He said

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