{"id":299841,"date":"2021-01-04T13:40:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=299841"},"modified":"2021-01-04T13:49:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:49:40","slug":"covid-19-jigawa-witnessed-high-rate-of-rape-kidnapping-cases-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=299841","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Jigawa witnessed high rate of rape, kidnapping cases in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Jigawa State Ministry of Justice has said that the State witnessed a higher rate of rape and kidnapping cases compared to previous years.<br \/>\nState Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Dr Musa Adamu Aliyu disclosed this in the ministry\u2019s end of the year review, and was contained in a statement signed by teh Public Relations Officer of the ministry, Zainab Baba Santali.<br \/>\nHe said eighty-six rape cases were filed from January to December, 2020.<br \/>\nAliyu explained that, the ministry had also witnessed tremendous success during the year 2020.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the area of litigations, the Ministry has prosecuted various cases from the State High Court to the Court of Appeal.<br \/>\n\u201c212 charges were filed out, of which 86 were rape cases, 57 homicide, robbery 16, unnatural offence\/sodomy 19.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cOthers are gross indecency 9, causing hurt 11, kidnapping 2, possession of firearms 4, stealing 2 and concealment of birth 4.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Commissioner of Police, CP Usman Sule Gomna said the state had witnessed an increase in criminals offences when compared with previous years.<br \/>\nHe said this is as a result of the lockdown measure enforced to curtail the spread of COID-19 in the country.<br \/>\nThe CP said that as a result of the lockdown, the economy was seriously affected and criminals came out in full force for survival which led to a rise in criminal activities.<br \/>\n\u201cKidnapping moved from 4 in 2019 to 17 in 2020 and rape cases from 61 to 72.\u201d<br \/>\nHe explained that 915 cases were recorded, 855 charged to court, 794 convicted while 58 awaiting trial.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jigawa State Ministry of Justice has said that the State witnessed a higher rate of rape and kidnapping cases compared to previous years. State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Dr Musa Adamu Aliyu disclosed this in the ministry\u2019s end of the year review, and was contained in a statement signed by teh Public Relations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,30,236,1178,406],"class_list":["post-299841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-arewa","tag-jigawa","tag-kidnappers","tag-rape"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/299843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}