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Rape
By Muhammad Baba Busu
Lafia, Nov. 10, 2016 (NAN) The Emir of Lafia, Dr Isah Mustapha-Agwai 1, has appealed to parents to pay attention to their daughters’ movement, media exposure and dressing to avoid rape and other social vices.
Mustapha, who made the appeal during a meeting with stakeholders in his palace in Lafia on Thursday, decried the high rate of rape cases in the emirate council.
NAN reports that the meeting which had in attendance, district, village and ward heads as well as religious leaders was aimed at finding lasting solutions to rape cases and other social vices in the area.
According to the traditional ruler, “the meeting is timely, because we will use this gathering to discuss and proffer solutions to put an end to alleged raped complaints and other abuses we are receiving.
“It is our responsibility as parents to check the types of dress they wear, films they watch and peer group they move with and advise them on how to live a moral life and become good mothers tomorrow,” Mustapha said.
The monarch urged the parents to adhere strictly to these directives, adding that the emirate council would not allow erring parents to go scot-free.
He also advised girls to live a life of moral integrity to enable them to secure better lives in the future.
“If you are able to live a moral life and be upright, you will be able to secure better future for yourselves and good life in the future,’’ Mustapha said.
He also cautioned religious leaders against presiding over any wedding without presentation of HIV/AIDs test result by the couple.
Mustapha explained that this would go a long way to curtail the spread of the virus.
Also speaking, the Madaki Lafia, Alhaji Ishayaka Dauda, revealed that statistic have shown that areas most vunerable to the rape included Bukan-Sidi, Kilima, Kidin Amba, Angwan Tiv, and Angwan Yazawa.
Dauda called on parents to live up to expectation by effectively monitoring their children.
On his part, the Lafia Interim Management Committee Chairman, Alhaji Ahmed Suleiman-Wambai, who condemned in totality the cases of rape in the area, said no civilized society would allow such thing to exist.
He pledged to collaborate with the emirate council and relevant stakeholders to curb the spread of the menace in the Local Government Area. (NAN)
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Edited by Razak Owolabi/Ismail Abdulaziz