By Ahmed Abubakar, Dutse
Jigawa state government has signed law to tackle social media, Cyber and other digital crimes against the state or individual.
The Artoney General and state commissioner for Justice, Dr Musa Adamu revealed this in a brief overview of the recent law signed by the state governor on Violence Against Person Prohibition law.
He said the new law, also stipulate punishment on any digital crimes perpetuated against individual, group of people or state.
According to him, before now there was no adequate law to deal with digital crimes in the state which made it very difficult for judges to treat any related cases.
Dr Aliyu however revealed that, the new law on Violence Against Person was designed to give maximum protection to vulnerable members of the society and other crimes from digital era.
“Under the new law anybody found guilty on rape case, Kidnapping the punishment would be death sentence or life imprisonment with no third option” .
“Also anybody found guilty on political thuggery or sponsoring it will face not less than 6 month to four years imprisonment “
“The new law also banned the use of vulgar language, nude pictures, video or any public digital display in the name of advertisements “.
The Atoney general called on media and civil societies to be a watch dogs for the implementation of the law and ensure no one is allowed to use his influence to compromise the law particularly on rape case..
