The Lagos State Government has written a letter through the
Directorate of Public Prosecutions, DPP, demanding that the Nigerian
Police should forward the duplicate of the case file on the alleged
domestic assault meted out on actress Mercy Aigbe by her husband Lanre
Gentry.
The letter indicated the interest
of the state government in prosecuting the assault case in the earliest
possible time so that both victim and offender can have their case
resolved promptly.
This is in line with the statement made by the State
Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem,
during this year’s ministerial briefing
Mr
Kazeem said: “The DPP is committed to ensuring that all offenders are
brought to book thereby discouraging impunity in our society. We are
also committed to speedy trials, especially so that suspects are not
detained for too long awaiting trial. It is our belief that both the
victims of a crime and the alleged offenders deserve to have their cases
resolved at the earliest possible time.”
Vanguard
reports that the resolve to write the Police was sequel to the result
of the recent medical check-up conducted on Mercy Aigbe that indicated
alleged assault by her husband. Asides writing to the Deputy
Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal Investigative
Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos Mainland Local Government, DPP also
copied other relevant agencies, to alert them of its plan.
It
would be recalled that the Coordinator of the State Domestic and Sexual
Violence Response Team, DSVRT, Mrs. Titilola Vivour- Adeniyi, had
argued during a sensitization programme that Domestic Violence is a
crime committed against the State. She said that if anyone is abused,
the state is also being abused, hence our mindsets have to change and
domestic violence has to be treated as a crime against the state.
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