Barrister Bankole Olaoluwa
The Christ Apostolic Church, Ayomide District Headquarter at Ijoka, Akure today Sunday 12th of July, added their voices to other preachers against rape in the world by allowing a lecture on the nagging subject during the Church Service.
The District Superintendent, Pastor Idowu Adefila, while giving his consent to the lecture said, presentations of these kinds are necessary at times to enable proper education of the Church. Calling up the designated speaker to the podium, the Pastor added that Church is not only about prayers, but also a place of general education, counselling and enlightenment.
The lecturer, Mr. Bankole Olaoluwa, who is also the Church Secretary is an economist and also a legal practitioner. In his lecture, he described rape as sexual harassment often without the consent of either of the persons involved, or fraudulent consent. According to him, fraudulent consent has to do with deceit, that is, deceiving a female or minor to have her consent of sexual intercourse.
The renowned lawyer also stressed out some of the causes of rape, which include but not limited to, unnecessary outings, bad associations, drugs, insensitivity and carelessness on the part of parents, night outings, allowing adult males to have bad plays with the female children, and lots more. He therefore charged parents to always give maximum time and attention to their children, keep watch on their calibre of friends, and never allow any adult male, either insider or outsider to toy with the mentality of their female children by calling them names like, "my wife, my girlfriend, my love," and so on.
While assuring the congregation that a rape perpetrator can never go unpunished, Barrister Olaoluwa stated that Section 357 and 358 of Criminal Code, and Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act 2015 (VAPPA) are provisions under the law to do justice to the crazy behaviour. For avoidance of doubt, he explained further that the offence attracts 25 years imprisonment.
To back up the speaker thereafter, Pastor Adefila in his own admonition pointed to the Books of 2 Samuel 13: 1-15 and Job 31:1, explaining that the terrible act of rape is as old as the world itself, but advised that lust, which is one of the numerous causes of rape, can be avoided by following the instruction in the Book of Job stipulated above.
The Pastor finally advised every parent not to desist from giving sex education to their children, and also create enough time for them from time to time, and never abandom them due to jobs or businesses.
Odunayo Ogunmodede reports from Akure, Ondo State.
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