Osun Police arrested 78 rape suspects in 2013

Osun State police command has disclosed that no fewer than 78 rape and 70 robbery suspects were arrested by the command in year 2013.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Dorothy Gimba stated this while briefing newsmen on the activities of the command last year.

On the review of the activities of the command, Gimba said 26 murder suspects, 17 cultists and two kidnappers were arrested while two kidnapped victims were rescued and 45 arms, 52 ammunition were recovered during the year under review.

She said 62 vehicles and 64 motorcycles were also recovered while 90 suspects were convicted and another 99 standing trial in various courts in the state.

The commissioner of police noted that the command carried out diligent investigations of all cases and employed prompt responses strategies in achieving the feat recorded in 2013.

She explained that the command with the help of the state government and other security agencies restored orderliness and peace to the crisis ridden communities of Oba-Oke and Oba-Ile in Olorunda Local Government Council of the state as well as Ido-Oshun and Ede.

Early sex can cause cervical cancer – Registrar

A Senior Registrar at the Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Dr. Patrick Echekwube, has said that early sexual exposure and having multiple sex partners are some factors that predispose women to cervical cancer.

Echekwube said this in an interview with our correspondent in Ilesa on Tuesday, at a free medical check-up organised by the International Breweries Plc for residents of the town.

He said other factors — including age and family history — were some of the factors which predisposed women to having cervical cancer.

He said, “Girls who start having sex from around age 12 or 13 are more likely to have cervical cancer later in life. Early exposure to sex is one of the factors causing cervical cancer. But other factors are also responsible for it and these include, having multiple sex partners and family history.

“In other words, if a member of your family has had cervical cancer, you are likely to have it. Also, the chances of having it increase with age, especially from age 50 and above.”

The doctor, however, said early detection of the cancer was important, because treatment would start immediately and survival rate was higher.

The Corporate Affairs Manager of IBL, Folasade Omole, said the company, as part of its corporate social responsibility, organised the free health exercise to give back to the society and to ensure that the people were healthy.

Information from Punch Newspaper was used in this report