The Delta State Ministry of Justice has commenced the publication of names and photos of convicted sex offenders in accordance with the provisions of Section 5 of the Violence Against Persons Law 2020.

This is part of measures to discourage people from indulging in sexual crimes and other related-offences.

The Head of Anti- Sexual Offences Unit in the ministry, Mrs. Uche Patricia Akamagwuna, disclosed this in Asaba on Monday.

She said that the policy was geared towards ensuring that sexual offenders were named and shamed.

Akamagwuna further said that their names would be published on Delta State Ministry of Justice Sex Offenders Register, the media as well as pasting the pictures of such offenders in places of their last residence.

The first set of sex offenders to be named and shamed included 46 years old Lukuman Yunusa , an indigene of Osun State who was formerly residing at No 5, Jarret Street, Asaba.

He was convicted and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment at the Correctional Centre Ogwashi-uku for raping of a 10-year-old girl, noting that his name is already in the Delta State Ministry of Justice Sex Offenders Register.

Also named is one Endurance Oyemike aged 44, a native of Ogume in Ndokwa West Local Government Area of the Delta State.

A former resident of Ogbe-Echila Street, Ogbe-Ogume is currently serving 10 years imprisonment with hard labour at the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Kwale for rape.

The convict had been duly registered in the state Ministry of Justice Sex Register.

One Friday Nweke, a 34-year-old indigene of Odalekor village in Nkwor Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and formerly a resident of Transformer Camp, Ominigboma in Oko has also been registered.

Friday Nweke is presently serving a life imprisonment term at the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Warri for the rape of a six-year-old girl.

Similarly, a 33-year-old Ossai Mishark from Ossissa in Ndokwa West Local Government Area is already serving six years’ jail term at the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Kwale for the rape of a 42-year-old woman. His name is also in the Sexual Offenders Register.

One Frank Osehdi, a pastor of Sure Fire Ministry, Kwale who is 46-year-old and a native of Isoko North Local Government Area and formerly residing at First, Iyatu by Asaba highway, Kwale, is also serving a seven-year jail term at the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Kwale for raping an 18-year-old girl. (Courtesy, excluding headline, Nigerian Tribune)

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