Ebonyi Govt calls for male inclusiveness in fight against gender-based violence

By Jeff Agbodo

Abakaliki — The Ebonyi State Government has called for greater antheral information successful efforts to extremity Gender-Based Violence (GBV), stressing that lasting alteration requires corporate work from each members of society.

The Special Assistant to the Governor connected Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Barr. Ekwutosi Maryann Nkwegu, stated this during a media briefing connected the state’s run against GBV, emphasizing that sustainable advancement cannot beryllium achieved without the progressive engagement of men and boys.

Nkwegu, successful her presumption titled “Advancing Male Inclusivity successful Gender-Based Violence Awareness: A Call for Collective Action successful Ebonyi State,” said that portion overmuch has been done to empower women and girls, men indispensable beryllium portion of the solution for genuine societal transformation.

“GBV is not a women’s contented alone; it is simply a societal interest that demands corporate action. True advancement requires the information of everyone—men and women alike,” she said.

According to her, the Ebonyi State Government, nether the enactment of Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, is collaborating with civilian nine organizations, accepted rulers, younker groups, and faith-based institutions to beforehand antheral inclusivity successful GBV prevention and response.

She explained that the government’s ongoing initiatives see sensitization campaigns, assemblage dialogues, antheral advocacy clubs, and mentorship programs designed to foster affirmative masculinity and shared work successful gathering safer communities.

“Evidence has shown that erstwhile men are actively engaged, cases of home unit and maltreatment trim significantly,” Nkwegu added.

She reaffirmed the government’s committedness to creating an Ebonyi wherever men and women enactment unneurotic to destruct each forms of gender-based violence, successful enactment with the People’s Charter of Needs, which emphasizes peace, equity, and societal inclusion.

Nkwegu besides urged accepted rulers, spiritual leaders, younker organizations, and the media to amplify consciousness campaigns that promote antheral participation.

“Silence is complicity, portion enactment is partnership. Together, we tin physique an Ebonyi wherever sex justness is not a privilege but a right, and wherever men and women basal broadside by broadside for a violence-free society,” she said.

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