Incest rate in Osun alarming – Women advocacy group laments

…Trains spiritual leaders connected solution

Shina Abubakar, Osogbo

The Centre for Women’s Health and Information, CEWHIN, has lamented the precocious complaint of incest successful Osun State, calling connected spiritual leaders to instrumentality drastic steps towards curbing the menace.

Speaking astatine the broadside of a two-day consultative Workshop with Muslim and Christian leaders successful Osogbo connected Tuesday, CEWHIN’s Executive Director, Mrs Atinuke Odukoya stressed the request for stakeholders to gully an enactment program connected reducing unit against women and the menace of incest.

“Looking astatine the issues astir information and statistics, the complaint of Gender and Sexual unit successful Osun authorities is alarming. Osun authorities has a precocious complaint of incest.

So we decided to statesman to prosecute the authorities done its cardinal players similar spiritual leaders. Religious leaders signifier our norms, behaviours and attitudes much than they instrumentality recognition for.

The thought is to prosecute with them directly. So, If you forestall it from your end. Then the larger nine begins to spot wherefore it should not beryllium a portion of our norms. We are trying to physique a concern that beforehand prevention.”

One of the facilitator, Professor Habeebat Oladosu-Usman of the University of Ibadan, stressed the request for spiritual leaders to recognize what represent unit against women and girls with a presumption to enlighten their congregation and followers connected its antagonistic interaction connected the nine and enactment a extremity to it.

“Having identified what constitutes unit however bash we forestall it? How bash we enactment against it? Then we request to commencement talking and halt the civilization of muting, silencing of women. Don’t accidental that! Don’t bash this! The barriers are conscionable to much, we request to interruption galore barriers”, helium said.

Also CEWHIN’s in-house trainer, Dr Ayeni Oluropo said aft the grooming exercise, the participants would gully an implementable enactment program that would beryllium adequately monitored towards reducing the menace.

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