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FIDA seeks collaboration to end Child Marriage, Gender Based Violence in Kogi

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Last updated: 2023/11/28 at 8:38 AM
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FIDA seeks collaboration to end Child Marriage, Gender Based Violence in Kogi

 

The International Federation of Women Lawyers, (FIDA)
has called on the State Government and other stakeholders to collaborate with the organization towards putting an end to Sexual and Gender Based Violence, (SGBV) including Child Early Forced Marriage, (CEFM) in Kogi State.

The Country Vice President/National President of FIDA Amina Suzannah Agbaje made the call on Monday in Lokoja at a Stakeholders consultative forum on implementation/status of gender responsive services for Women and Girls which was supported by Nigeria Civil Society Situationroom
with funding from UK international development.

Agbaje lamented that, Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) and Child Early Forced Marriage (CEFM) remains a challenge that significantly constrains women especially those marginalized and facing intersecting forms of discrimination or multi-deprivation

Represented by the Kogi State Chairperson of FIDA Barr. Lilian Okolo, she posited that, the menace of Sexual & Gender Based Violence (SGBV) requires a holistic and collaborative effort as survivors deserve to be treated delicately and with empathy at all stages of the criminal process taking into cognizance their traumatic and psychological state.

While noting that there is poor awareness on the VAPP law in Kogi State, Agbaje stressed that,
“This Stakeholders Consultative Forum is intended to foster collaboration, partnerships, and experiential shared learning on best practices for gender responsive service delivery for women and girls by state actors and service providers through a coordinated approach.

“This consultative forum is aimed at also improving networking by Civil Society Organisations in the state towards an improved GBV programming, prevention and response while providing a platform for state and non-state actors to strategically unify strategies in mitigating cases of Gender Based Violence (SGBV) through policy influencing”she stated

“At the end of this training, what we intends to achieve is to build the capacity of every participants for them to understand what a gender responsive budget is all about. As we know, sexual and Gender based violence has become a menace in our society. We actually want to see preventive measures to forestall future occurrence”.

Agbaje also pointed out the need for the Kogi State Government to immediately declare State of emergency on Gender and Sexual Based Violence in the State.

She listed poor funding, poor awareness, and lack of Sexual Assault Referral Centre, (SARC) as some of the challenges confronting the implementation of VAPP laws in the State, adding that, the Government should be responsive in helping institutionalizing the Law in Kogi State.

Earlier in her remarks, the Assistant program manager of FIDA, Ezinwa Obiajunwa admonished the Kogi State Government to gazette the VAPP law in Kogi State.

Obiajunwa said “The fight against Sexual and Gender and Sexual Based Violence, (SGBV) has been a case of one step forward and ten step back in the sense we have alot of political will by the Government to enact responding policies in the State. We have lack of interest in adopting VAPP laws.

” Since the Governors in Nigeria declared State of emergency on Gender and Sexual Based Violence in 2020, that changed things. Many State Governors adopted the VAPP law and that has helped us alot in trying to handle and respond to cases of sexual based violence. But it is very unfortunate that the VAPP law has been adopted in Kogi State, but has not been gazetted. If you already adopted a law, what is now the big deal to gazette it.

“Gazeting it will enable people to have access to it and know the law that is protecting them. It will also help in the testing of the law. If the law is gazetted in Kogi State and people are aware that this are what the provisions are, it increases reportage.

“It will make people know that there are offences when they want to seek redress. Kogi State VAPP law is very inclusive in the sense that it also provide response mechanism, committee, stakeholders that would handle sexual and Gender based violence issues. When people are sensitize on the provisions of the law, it will go a long way to help curbing this societal menace”.

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Democracy Newsline November 28, 2023
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