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Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Culture, Grace Gekpe, Minister of Information and ulture, Lai Mohammed and Executive Secretary, NHRC, Tony Ojukwu

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Culture, Grace Gekpe, Minister of Information and ulture, Lai Mohammed and Executive Secretary, NHRC, Tony Ojukwu

Nigerian govt to launch campaign against rape, gender-based violence

byAgency Report
June 18, 2020
2 min read

The Federal Government is partnering with the Ministry of Women Affairs to launch a national campaign against rape and gender-based violence, the Information and Culture minister, Lai Mohammed, has said.

Mr Mohammed, who spoke Thursday in Abuja when officials of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) paid him an advocacy visit, said the campaign would include advocacy, public sensitisation and social mobilisation.

“The campaign is necessary not only to raise the level of awareness about rape and gender-based violence but to ensure that Nigerians own the fight against the abhorrent and repulsive criminal acts.

“I have no doubt that when we launch the campaign, the National Human Rights Commission will also join us,” he said.

The minister commended the NHRC for its ongoing advocacy campaign against rape and gender-based violence.

“Your campaign couldn’t have come at a more auspicious time.

“Today, as we are fighting the pandemic of COVID-19, we are also being confronted with another pandemic, the pandemic of rape,” he said.

Mr Mohammed quoted the Inspector-General of Police as saying that between January and May 2020, 717 rape cases were reported.

“That is an average of 143 cases per month and around five cases per day,” he said.

“And we are talking of reported cases. Definitely, there are also hundreds of unreported cases.

“This is totally unacceptable.

“The good news is that 799 suspects were arrested during the same period, while 631 cases were conclusively investigated and charged to court.

“It is said that the true measure of a society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members and that include women and children.

“I can assure you that the Federal Government will do everything possible to stem the growing tide of rape and gender-based violence in the country,” the minister said.

Earlier, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Tony Ojukwu said “rape is a gross violation of human rights – right to dignity, right to life, right to sexuality.’’

Mr Ojukwu said the public outrage on account of rape and other violent crimes against women and girls leading to the death of some of the victims had reached a horrifying and scary proportion in recent times.

READ MORE: Rape: NAWOJ embarks on nationwide protest

He, therefore, called for all hands to be on deck to address this pervasive crime in the society.

He said the commission had put together a week-long activism with the theme: “Equality and Dignity for Nigerian Women, Join the Fight against Rape and SGBV’’ to among others create and maintain visibility on the crime.

Mr Ojukwu called on the minister to use his office to join other key stakeholders in the quest for a durable solution to the national challenge. (NAN)

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