Stakeholders involved in gender-based advocacy have expressed concern over the rising cases of violence against women and rape of the girl-child in Bayelsa State, declaring that 50 cases were recorded in 2020.
The President, DOF, Dise Sheila Ogbise, while speaking during the inauguration of the nine-person executive of the Bayelsa State chapter of DOF, led by Comfort Itoru, said abandonment of complaints by victims was a major setback in the fight against gender-based violence as parties usually settled and abandoned their cases.
They all agreed that the issue of violence against women and the girl child must be checked in the state. She said since the incorporation of the foundation in 2017, it had raised the bar on the issue of victims speaking up and reporting cases of gender based violence because that is better than silence.
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