31% Of Nigerian Women Suffer Sexual, Physical Violence – Minister

The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajia Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, connected Wednesday, disclosed that astir 31 per cent of Nigerian women, betwixt the ages of 15 and 49 years, experienced carnal violence.

This is conscionable arsenic the Minister besides hinted that implicit 28 per cent of women crossed Nigeria person suffered a lawsuit of intersexual unit astatine slightest erstwhile successful their lifetime.

Hajia Sulaiman-Ibrahim emphatically stated that disposable statistic person shown the “stark reality” of Nigeria, notwithstanding immoderate advancement recorded successful the combat against Gender Based Violence (GBV).

The Minister disclosed these successful Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, portion speaking astatine the Sexual Assault Referral Centre successful the state, wherever she had a stopover during a moving sojourn she made to the authorities capital.

Hajia Sulaiman-Ibrahim was welcomed to the authorities by the Deputy Governor, Engr Noimot Salako—Oyedele, the First Lady, Mrs Bamidele Abiodun, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hon. Motunrayo Adijat Adeleye, and different apical pistillate authorities functionaries.

Speaking further astatine the Centre, the Minister lamented that the fig was not conscionable an mean statistic. Still, chap citizens who “are daughters, sisters, mothers, and neighbours. Each fig carries a quality look and a quality story”.

“They punctual america that gender-based unit is not a backstage occupation but a assemblage situation that undermines peace, household life, and development.”

The Minister said the statistic showed that large stakeholders indispensable enactment urgently, with compassion and commitment.

She said that nether President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, her ministry has embedded the imaginativeness successful the Social Impact Intervention Programmes designed to “restore dignity, grow opportunities, and fortify families, ensuring that nary woman, child, oregon susceptible idiosyncratic is near behind.”

Also, the State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Adijat-Adeleye, explained that the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) and the Women Development Centre were established due to the fact that the authorities authorities believes that “healing indispensable spell manus successful manus with rebuilding.”

Adeleye, a erstwhile House of Assembly member, said that beyond the centres, Ogun State has continued championing women and kid extortion done sensitisation walks, grassroots training, empowerment schemes, and child-focused programmes.

“At the SARC, survivors travel successful with pain, but they bash not stay defined by it. Here, wounds are treated, tears are wiped, voices are restored, and shattered lives statesman the travel to wholeness again.

“But arsenic we reflected, we asked ourselves: what happens aft the tears are wiped and the scars statesman to heal? Survivors request much than conscionable recovery; they request renewal. That is wherefore we placed the Women’s Development Centre conscionable a fewer steps away,” she said.

Adijat-Adeleye, however, called connected the Federal Government to supply much backing for involution projects, grassroots awareness, stronger policies, and wider programmes that guarantee nary subsister slips done the cracks.

“If Ogun State has lit the occurrence of extortion and empowerment, we inquire that the Federal Government determination much lipid that makes the occurrence intolerable to quench,” Adeleye said.