Lagos State Government has added the details of two hundred and six persons convicted of sexual offences between April last year and April this year to the Lagos State Sexual Offenders Register.
Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo revealed this at the Lagos State Ministry of Justice’s 2021 Ministerial News Briefing, themed: ‘Our journey between April 2020 and April 2021’.
Onigbanjo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria said the offenders were prosecuted by the state’s Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
According to him, the office the DPP issued 954 legal advice and is prosecuting 1860 cases at the high courts, magistrates’ courts, including offenders who attacked LASTMA officials – 10 charged so far.
He explained that the DPP has secured the convictions of 281 at the state’s high courts for various offences.
“206 out of the 281 convictions are sexually related offences. The 206 are now in our sex offenders register,” Onigbanjo added.
The A-G said the Sexual Offenders Register is part of measures by the administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to enforce its zero-tolerance policy for domestic and sexual related offences in Lagos.
Other measures include the launch of a call centre to attend to reports of gender-based violence via the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT).
Lagos State Government established its Sexual Offenders’ Register via an Executive Order on December 1, 2015.
The Sexual Offenders Register contains the names of all those prosecuted for sexual violence since 2015.
Currently, only Lagos and Ekiti, have Sexual Offenders Registers containing databases of individuals convicted of sexual offences.