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Home | Breaking: Senate Approves Life Jail Term For Rape Offenders

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Breaking: Senate Approves Life Jail Term For Rape Offenders

Tare Magbei
Tare Magbei
Published: June 13, 2025
Last updated: June 13, 2025
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Breaking: Senate Approves Life Jail Term For Rape Offenders | Daily Report Nigeria
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The House of Senate on Tuesday passed a bill specifying life jail for persons found guilty of kidnapping.

According to the Senate, this punishment of life imprisonment is in opposition to the provisions of section 364 of the Act, which offerred Kidnappers Ten years imprisonment as Punishment.

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The bill which has past third reading stage has further prescribed that there should be no gender bias in rape offences, explaining that a man or woman could be raped.

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The bill sponsored by Senator Oluremi Tinubu, APC, Lagos Central was tagged “the Criminal Code Act (Amendment) Bill, 2020”, passed second reading in the Senate on Tuesday, 26 November 2019.

The sponsor of the Bill, Senator Tinubu had explained that the Bill sought to expunge certain provisions of Section 218 on defilement which states that “A prosecution for either of the offences defined in this section shall be begun within two months after the offence is committed”
imposed a limit for the prosecution of offences on defilement and created a huge margin for inaccuracy.

Section 221 of the bill which the Senate also deleted, deals with offences against morality.

The provision states that:(1) “Any person who has or attempts to have unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl being of or above thirteen years and under sixteen years of age” and knowing a woman or girl to be an idiot or imbecile, has or attempts to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her; is guilty of a misdemeanor and is liable to imprisonment for two years, with or without caning.

Senate said that subsection (1) of the bill is amended to include a “Minor”, and the term “imbecile” and “idiot” in subsection (2) connotes a derogative remark and therefore is substituted with the word “mentally challenged”.

In addition, Section 357 which deals with, sexual assaults on females is amended to indicate incidences of non-consensual sex perpetrated against a boy or man, whereas, Section 364 of the Principal Act is amended to proffer life sentences for persons found guilty of kidnapping.

Senate said the amendment and passage of the bill became necessary due to incessant cases of kidnapping, rape and defilement across the country.

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