ASUU: Death penalty, castration, not sufficient enough to end rape

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says death sentence and castration of rape offenders is not sufficient to end incessant rape cases in the country.

Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, the ASUU National President, made this known in an interview with Newsmen in Ota, Ogun on Sunday.

Ogunyemi said that the death sentences and other stiffer punishment imposed on armed robbers by Federal Government had not yielded desirable result or end armed robbery in the country.

He attributed incessant cases of rape to poor governance, noting that the individual may have problems and that the society also has to be blamed.

“The country has to balance the two by looking on how best we can reform and how best the nation can create the environment to minimise the manifestation of this prevalent.

“How do we create an environment where people will express their frustration on people by oppressing the innocent girls or women in the society,” Ogunyemi said.

He described rape as a form of pervasion and abnormal way of behaving caused by psychological dislocation or mental problem exhibited by the rapist.

According to him, the social environment the nation finds itself also creating avenues for such act to be perpetrated.