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Nigeria: Implementation of Child Protection Law to End Abuse
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Gender-based groups lament Bayelsa rape cases, violence against women
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Bayelsa stakeholders lament increase in gender-based violence
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By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa
Stakeholders involved in gender-based advocacy have decried the rising cases of violence against women and rape of the girl child in Bayelsa State, saying 50 cases were recorded in the year 2020.
According to the advocacy groups led by the Do Foundation International, out of the 50 cases recorded, two convictions were secured while others are still pending in the law courts.
Barrister Dise Sheila Ogbise, while speaking during the inauguration of the new executives of the Do Foundation Intentional, Bayelsa chapter, led by Barrister Comfort Itoru, said “it is disheartening that abandonment of complaint by victims is a major set back in its fight against gender based violence as parties settle and abandon their cases.”
By Oluchi Chibuzor
Over the years, the incidence of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) especially against women and female children has reportedly grown enormously, posing a high-risk security threat to the female gender.
These acts of violence against women and female children range from physical to mental and emotional abuse.
The most common expressions of these abuses being sexual harassment, early marriage, physical violence, and harmful traditional practices that put the female gender at a disadvantage.
A recent study commissioned by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Social Development in conjunction with the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) Nigeria shows that 28% of Nigerian women aged 25-29 have experienced some form of physical violence either from or before the age of 15.
The Kaduna State government appears poised to end child abuse in the state. Following the rejection of the Child’s Right Act 2003, the state came up with its version by enacting the Kaduna State Child’s Welfare and Protection in 2018. John Shiklam writes on the recent collaboration with UNICEF to train stakeholders on the implementation of the law
In a move to curb the increasing cases of child abuse, the Kaduna State government in collaboration with the United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has taken steps to implement the Child’s Welfare and Protection Law which was passed by the State House of Assembly in 2018.
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