Authorities in Lagos said no fewer than 206 persons were convicted for sexual offences between April 2020 and April 2021. 

The state’s attorney-general Moyosore Onigbanjo said the details of these persons have been added to the Lagos State Sexual Offenders Register.

Mr Onigbanjo revealed this on Wednesday at the Lagos State Ministry of Justice’s 2021 Ministerial Press Briefing.

He said the offenders were prosecuted by the state’s Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

“The office of 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,” Mr Onigbanjo said.

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,” Mr Onigbanjo added.

The attorney-general 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.