The Director-General of The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Julie Okah-Donli, has said during a child abuse event launch that young boys in Nigeria are currently more vulnerable to rape than girls. 
Mrs Okah-Donli attributed this to the fact that people tend to focus more on the girl child being raped and forget the reality that young boys getting raped in the country more regularly is currently on the increase.
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NAPTIP boss during the “Cover Me” campaign Saturday, June 27, which is aimed at exposing perpetrators of child abuse, Mrs Okah-Donli advocated for stricter punishment for rapists but rejected capital punishments. She advocated for stronger mechanisms for preventing young boys and girls having to suffer child abuse and it preventive measures should cut across the board and not just focus on the girl child alone.
The NAPTIP DG Said:
“I do not advocate for capital punishment of death sentence because it will make rapists become brutal because they will not want to leave witnesses and it will also encourage jungle justice with people using it to accuse and kill people falsely.
Boys are more vulnerable to rape because we tend to focus more on girls so we need to focus on all our children. Now you see a lot of silly videos with people sharing and reposting, If you send it to me I will arrest you for child pornography, anyone who stigmatizes against victims will be punished. We need to make people know that we are serious.
During the lockdown, a lot of things where revealed to us, we realized that most of the reports we got was from observant neighbors and not parents.” she said
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