The Sokoto State Ministry of Women and Children Affairs with support from EU-UN Spotlight Initiative has commenced one day sensitization meeting with 100 women right group and civil society organizations on prevention, response and ending all forms of Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the state.
TODAY
March 6, 2021
Members of the Sokoto State Gender Based Response Team, during an advocacy visit to the new commissioner of Police (CP), Mr Kamaldeen Okulola, said in 2020, no fewer than 329 persons were attended to in Sokoto for cases bordering on rape and sodomy.
Making the disclosure before the new CP, the centre manager of Nana Khadija Sexual Referral Centre, Adamu Florence, said they rendered medical assistance to 122 males and 201 females in the year under review.
According to her, they recieved 214 cases of rape of minors and 55 adults as well, even as she explained that, the youngest survivor attended to was a year and three months old, while the oldest was 60 years old.