Nigeria Recorded 10,726 Cases Of SGBV, Says Pauline Tallen
AREWA AGENDA – The Minister of Women Affairs Dame Pauline Tallen has disclosed that no fewer than 10,726 cases of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) were recorded recently.
Pauline Tallen said her ministry has received complaints including 738 of such cases arising from Sokoto State alone.
Tallen disclosed this on Tuesday in Sokoto at the stakeholders meeting of EU/ UN Spotlight Initiative high-level monitoring held at Dankani hotel, Sokoto State.
She lamented about the high rate of physical, psychological and emotional violence against women and children in recent time.
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She noted that the commonest form of violence and abuse reported include rape, child marriage, wife battery, sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, prostitution, incest, negative widowhood practices, slavery and trafficking of girls.
She maintained that her ministry had embarked on different programmes of sensitization to the state governors with a view to appeal and request the domestication of the violence against persons prohibition (VAAPP) act in order to strengthen the justice system and the prosecution of the perpetrators of violence against the vulnerable women and children.
She reiterated the ministry’s commitment to continue to collaborate with civil society organizations and other relevant partners and agencies to curb the menace
In a related development, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Clem Agba, said the federal government has made budgetary allocations to some non governmental organisations such as Spotlight Initiative to help it carry out the function effectively.
He maintained that the budgetary allocation would help the organization in implementing its programmes and policy in the country.
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