95% of gender-based violence unreported - Police

 

 By Shaffe Elizabeth

95% of numbers of gender based violence (GBV) go unreported, said, Victoria Obeke, Chief Superintendent of Police at Kaduna State Police Command. When the zonal

study paper "Closing Civic Space: The Experience of Women Led-Civil Society Organizations in North-West, Nigeria" was introduced in Kaduna, Obeke made this statement. "95% of GBV cases go unreported, and the majority of survivors are unaware of what they are going through," the speaker stated. Therefore, it is the parental or guardian's duty to see that the GBV victim receives justice. She exhorted the attendees to keep up their good work and spread awareness of GBV Dr. Lydia Umar, the Executive Director and Project Coordinator of Gender Awareness Trust (GAT), stated that the research was motivated by the finding that there was a great deal of mistrust regarding CSOs in that region of the nation.

"We just woke up one day and the state assembly wanted to pass a law regulating and controlling the CSOs, and the governor of Zamfara state said all the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) should leave the state," the woman stated.

Representatives from Kaduna, Zamfara, Birnin Kebbi, and Jigawa shared their experiences and pointed out that the main obstacles to their advancement were a lack of funding, a lack of awareness of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Law, and a lack of registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).