Msgr. Gabriel Osu, the Director of Social Communications, Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, on Wednesday blamed the rising incidence of rape in the country on poverty.

Osu, who stated this in an interview in Lagos, therefore, urged the Federal Government to improve the welfare of Nigerians.

Osu, who is the priest-in-charge of Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church, Lekki, Lagos.

“They say sex is the food of the poor. Why is it food of the poor, because there is overcrowding.

“Go to poor communities and what you see is overcrowding; no recreation, no food, no water, what happens?

“You begin to see rape; you begin to see all kinds of gangsterism that should not be there.

“The way they live in the rich sector, is not the way they live in the poverty stricken areas because there is no welfare they have nothing to bank on.

“What else can they do than to commit rape and commit nonsense and at the end of the day it leaves us backward.

“So government human management should be improved.

“Advice to parents, home training, give your children home training.

“When parents don’t have the time to train their children, parents are looking for money outside, no food inside.

“Proper upbringing, home training, education that is what will be the solution.”