100 Cases of Rape Recorded in Kano Courts within Two Months

Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwakwanso

(Thisday) According to Kano Judiciary, 100 cases of rape has been recorded in its courts between November an December last year.

The state Commissioner of Justice, Barrister Maliki Kuliya Umar, disclosed that more than 40 offenders has so far been convicted and are currently serving prison terms.

Maliki told reporters on Monday in Kano that the cases reached that number because people were now familiar with reporting such cases to police, unlike before when  the victims’ parents or guardians remained mute for stigmatization reasons.

Kano State practice sharia law and its such an irony that a state mostly Muslims still have high incidence of rape.