{"id":10500,"date":"2020-09-17T17:22:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T17:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndarason.com\/?p=10500"},"modified":"2022-11-15T10:53:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T09:53:17","slug":"rape-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/rape-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape Cases Soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rape cases have increased dramatically in Nigeria, especially in the northern part of the country, so that new cases are been recorded almost every day.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the effort to de-escalate its occurrence, recently the Nigerian minister of women affairs, Pauline Tallen, advocated the death penalty for rapists.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Radio Ndarason International reporter in Maiduguri today, an Islamic scholar, Imam Abdulkadir Ali, said rape is evil, sinful and a condemnable act in Islam.<\/p>\n<p>He added that there are a severe punishments in the hereafter for whoever commits rape.<\/p>\n<p>For a long time, women and rights&#8217; group activists were calling on government to enact a child protection law, but these calls have been in vain.<\/p>\n<p>Kaduna State government was commended by many Nigerian rights groups for signing into law castration for rapists just yesterday, which according to them it will go a long way to addressing the menace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic scholar says rape is evil, sinful and a condemnable act in Islam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":10506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26997,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500\/revisions\/26997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}