Isiolo County Women Representative Rehema Dida Jaldesa now wants private parts of sexual offenders chopped off to protect school girls against abuse. This comes hours after the Teaching service commission axed many teachers in connection sexual abuse in schools.
Addressing members of public in Isiolo during the launch of a programme dubbed ‘Wajibika’ on Tuesday, the legislator proposed an amendment of Section 43 of the Sexual Offences Act in order to introduce tougher punitive measures against the vice.
She further noted that she has written a proposal which she has already taken to the speaker seeking all those found guilty of child abuse have their private parts cut off with immediate effect upon conviction. Ms. Jaldesa also said that, in case cutting off private parts of sexual offenders does not end the vice, she will move on to propose death through hanging.
Ms. Jaldesa cited a few cases where school girls were abused by people supposed to protect them yet the cases were later terminated through dialogue to avoid shaming the perpetrators, their religion or families.
