Nov 20, 2019 | 12 comments
The West African Country of Nigeria is planning to launch a sex offender registry. According to them, they plan to make the registry public, but also according to them, they acknowledge that the purpose of the registry is to “name and shame” those who are on it.
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I have been to Nigeria. I do not worry about a registry there because you couldn’t pay me to go back.
If a 3rd world country such as Nigeria starts a sex offender registry and has all the same restrictions that ours has with where the person can or cannot live, their already poor country will be FLOODED with homelessness. Then let’s see how their politicians like that idea.
Interesting that the government actually acknowledges the naming and shaming of the Registry. Does that also mean punitive as well?
I mention this because if our country and Nigeria have similar Registries and Nigeria acknowledges the punitive aspect of their Registry doesn’t that weaken the US argument that it isn’t?
Were there any sex offenders planning on going to Nigeria? Hard enough just going to the next county for a couple of days. But yet murders and drug dealers have free rein to go where they please. Their drivers license isn’t mark with anything warning the public that hey I killed someone or sold them drugs and ruined their lives. But us its oh my God you can’t stay here you touched a child, which is the first and only thing that pops into their small minds. What is the percentage of dealers that continuously get rearrested vs sex offenders that return to prison for reaffending not a bull$hit technical violation? Until the public realizes that a large percentage of sex offenders never even touched a child we shall continue to be persecuted. Thank you for your time.
The way I read it , someone could be put on the registry for sexual harassment, say at the work place. That would put about half the job supervisors in this country on the registry.
At least there honest as to the purpose of the registry , unlike the US. That try’s to cover it up by calling it something else. But at the same time they are trying to do the same thing there punishing someone for doing , to quote there law , any one who “humiliates or degrades the sexual integrity of any person.” Also there law is not nearly as all inclusive and vague as the sex offender laws in the US.
Maby they should put pirates on it to. Those guys are killing , kidnapping and stealing millions a year from foreign counties using shipping lanes near the country. But hey. Maby the sex offenders can get work on the pirate ships.. I guess theres a silver lining to everything. Hopefully the pirate captains dont do background checks. The registry in that country makes about as much sence as my post.. Monkey politicians see. Monkey politicians do..
I don’t know how people will interpret “monkey politicians” here. Remember that we are dealing with a country on the African continent.
It’s true that Nigerian shippers are the most common victims of piracy in that region. But the Nigerian navy has done a far better job combating it than a registry would.
Jacob, don’t read too much into the term “monkey”. That’s very liberal and liberals aren’t helping our situation either. Keep their popular slogans in mind – “Just believe her”.
Nigeria? The “fertility” rate they tout in stats(which I have a hard time even believing) does mean they breed rapidly. If Nigeria is even capable of arresting the “offenders” that would mean they will have millions on their list in no time. And like everywhere there is a registry it will protect no one and harm all those they put on it. Shame them? I thought Nigeria was going through what is basically a civil war anyway , Muslims vs Christians. At least that is what I have seen on TV, again, if that is to believed.
“They breed rapidly” is a phrase I thought I’d never see in the registry debate!
at least they’re honest about it