Chima Azubuike, Gombe
Gombe state government on Thursday, 
indicated willingness to halt increasing rape cases in the state, adding that it considers; Castration, death sentence or life imprisonment.
Addressing a group, who came to the Government House, on a peaceful rally to protest the increasing cases of rape in the state, the Secretary to the Gombe State Government Professor Ibrahim Abubakar Njodi, who received the group on behalf state governor, Inuwa Yahaya, described the rape incidences as inhumane.
Njodi told the peaceful protesters that government is concerned about the situation and a bill will be sent anytime soon to the State House of Assembly which will prescribe stiff punishment for perpetrators of rape.
According to a press statement from the Information officer, office of the SSG, Joshua Danmalam, Njodi said Gombe state government is considering three options which are; death sentence, castrations, or life imprisonment assuring members of the group that as soon as the bill is passed they will be invited for the signing ceremony.
He called on parents to be more vigilant about the movement of their children as measure to curtail the ugly act which he described as inhuman.
The spokesman of the group and Chairman of Non Governmental organisations in the state Ibrahim Yusuf, said the coalition of nongovernmental organisations in Gombe State is worried with the raising cases of rape which ranks the state as having the highest prevelance SGBV in the country.
He said a total of 44 cases of rape have been prosecuted from January to July 2020.
