The Gender Unit of the Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara State Command, below the management of Umar Mohammed, has vowed to proceed to make substantial progress in its efforts to fight Gender-Primarily based Violence (GBV) and shield susceptible people inside the state.
Talking with journalists on the state Command headquarters in Ilorin, Commandant Umar disclosed that the Gender Unit has attended to 1 hundred and fifty-nine (159) instances of Gender-Primarily based Violence (GBV) over the past one 12 months.
These instances embrace; 76 instances of home violence, bodily assault and intimidation, 58 instances of abandonment of duty, 11 instances of sexual abuse and rape; 12 instances of threats to life and a couple of instances of lacking kids.
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He famous that a number of instances are at the moment in court docket and warranted the general public that every one offenders might be prosecuted in accordance with the legal guidelines of the land.
Umar reiterated the Corps’ unwavering stance of zero tolerance for Gender-Primarily based Violence and expressed the Corps’ ongoing dedication to collaborate with related stakeholders to aggressively fight this societal menace.
He urged members of the general public to help the Corps by offering actionable intelligence to assist forestall crime within the state.
