FG To Develop Legal Procedure For Prosecution of School GBV
The Federal government says efforts are on to develop standard operating procedures to create a legal pathway for the prosecution of school-related Gender-based violence and to combat the growing rate of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, SGBV, in the country.
While giving a keynote address at the 3-day Capacity Building Workshop for Investigators and Prosecutors on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence held in Abuja, the Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary of the Federal ministry of justice, Mrs. Beatrice Jedy-Agba noted that President Mohammed Buhari’s administration had provided all enabling support structures, legal, and the financial requirement to eliminate the social ill of sexual violence against women.
On her part, the Deputy commissioner of police, in charge of the Gender unit, Ms. Rita Oki, who represented the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba said there would no longer be instances of any cases of police refusal to release relevant data for prosecution of violators of SGBV.
The Executive Secretary of the National Human Right Commission, NHRC, Tony Ojukwu encouraged victims of SGBV to always speak out inorder to stop violators from getting away with their crime.
The programme is with the support of the British Council Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Program, RoLAC.
