{"id":448571,"date":"2017-12-20T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/20\/gang-rape-asokwa-mp-condemned-for-proposing-flogging-for-suspects\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T09:00:40","slug":"gang-rape-asokwa-mp-condemned-for-proposing-flogging-for-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/20\/gang-rape-asokwa-mp-condemned-for-proposing-flogging-for-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang rape: Asokwa MP condemned for proposing flogging for suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 20 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>kasapafmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/27943780.295.jpg\" alt=\"Patricia Appiagyei Asokwa MP\" title=\"Patricia Appiagyei Asokwa MP\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>MP for Asokwa Constituency, Patricia Appiagyei<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513760440_139_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> A Gender Activist, Esther Tawiah is demanding an apology from the Member of Parliament for Asokwa in the Ashanti region, Patricia Appiagyei, for proposing lashes for the seven boys implicated in the recent Bantama alleged gang rape incident instead of a jail term.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, sentencing the boys captured in a video recording gang-raping a minor will jeopardize their future hence her proposal for them to be lined up and flogged publicly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that could have urged the young ones to indulge in this kind of sodomy as I call it is either they were under the influence of alcohol or were on drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut like I said, they are showing their wild edge, they have started having feelings and therefore were examining their feelings and directed it [there] because they don\u2019t have the right parental care to tell them that there are certain things that we don\u2019t do in our society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we have to waste time to get them arrested, you know they are minors and\u2026I don\u2019t think prison will change them. It even hardens them because we don\u2019t have the kind of atmosphere where people can really reflect and then show remorse for what they have done\u2026but when you are publicly punished I believe that will make you better\u2026I believe [flogging] them will help,\u201d the former Kumasi Mayor told Starr News\u2019 Parliamentary correspondent Ibrahim Alhassan.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Gender Activist, Esther Tawiah in an interview with Starr News, said the comments of the MP are unfortunate and will open the floodgates for similar abuses, hence the comments must be retracted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeriously, lashing in public? what community service do we have in our country that is so serious for people to say that I\u2019ve done this I feel I\u2019m not going to do that again. The thing that comes to my mind is like so even if someone does this to me, at the end of the day all that they\u2019ll say is that let the person to be punished and it\u2019s normal. Other men will think that it\u2019s normal to treat women this way and just go Scot free because they\u2019ll say they\u2019re juvenile, these days children are stubborn. I think that she(MP) has to apologize for her statement, what she said is bad. She should come out and say I\u2019m sorry for my comment, as a woman I\u2019ve had a second thought about the comments I\u2019ve made and I feel it\u2019s wrong for me t say these thing and I\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: 55 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Wednesday, 20 December 2017 Source: kasapafmonline.com 2017-12-20 MP for Asokwa Constituency, Patricia Appiagyei A Gender Activist, Esther Tawiah is demanding an apology from the Member of Parliament for Asokwa in the Ashanti region, Patricia Appiagyei, for proposing lashes for the seven boys implicated in the recent Bantama alleged gang rape incident instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":448572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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