By Sani Idris
Hajiya Maryam Muazu, the Director, Youth, Kaduna State Ministry of Human
Services and Social Development (HSSD), says the state recorded 2,656 reported cases of Sexual and Gender
Based Violence (SGBV) in three years.
Muazu said this on Thursday in Kaduna at a public/private sector shared learning engagement on SGBV.
The engagement, organised by Legal Awareness for Nigerian Women (LANW) and Lawyers Alert,
under the USAID-funded Nigeria Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE) project, is being implemented by Palladium.
She said that in 2020, the state recoded 416 reported cases of SGBV, with 344 female victims and 72 male victims.
She added that in 2021, there were 619 reported cases which involved 480 female and 139 male victims.
In 2022, she said, the state recorded 1,621 cases of SGBV involving 1,305 females and 316 males.
Muazu said that reported cases were primarily on domestic violence against women, adding that other forms of violence against women, boys and girls
include rape, child abandonment, forced marriage, trafficking, threat to life and custody/access to children.
The director, who said that there was increased awareness on human rights, which explained the increase in the number
of reported cases of SGBV, added that “many people now have voices. They have social media; they know where to report their complaints.
“More people now voice out their violations and this is making them aware of what is going on.”
Muazu also said that substantive number of prosecutions against perpetrators of SGBV were secured.
She said the Kaduna State Government had been working to ensure SGBV cases were reduced, citing castration as one of the punishments for such an offence.
She listed measures taken by the state government to reduce the menace to include increasing the number of Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs),
the launched of a register for offenders and the Female Empowerment Fund.
“For survivors of SGBV, there is a support from government where they can get loans for businesses from the empowerment fund so that their rights are
economically protected,” she said.
The director said more sensitisation was required at the grassroots so that people would become more conscious of protecting and enforcing their
rights and the consequences and punishments that await culprits.
Also, Mrs Grace Yohanna, the Centre Manager, SARC Kafanchan, listed challenges impeding service delivery at SARCs as the
lack of test kits, operational vehicles, consumables for victims, impunity by some individuals, among others.
She urged stakeholders in the justice administration system, including the society, to work together to ensure justice
for victims of SGBV.
Earlier, the acting Executive Director of LANW, Mrs Hannatu Ahuwan, said the group and Lawyers Alert are members of
the SGBV Justice Network (JN) Cluster under the USAID SCALE project.
She said that together, they advocate the activation/implementation of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act and
the Administration of Criminal Justice (ACJA) Laws in Bauchi, Benue, Enugu, Kaduna, Osun, and the FCT.
Ahuwan added that the group also advocate speedy justice service delivery and resolution of SGBV cases.
She said that in pushing for full implementation of the VAPP Act in Kaduna State, the justice network cluster identified
equipping SARCs as one of the key actions needed for effective service delivery for survivors of SGBV.
“In order to bridge the gap for provision of resources for SARCs, LANW will facilitate a bi-annual shared learning event
and dialogue session on Public Private Partnership (PPP) and Private Sector Engagement (PSE) in Kaduna State”, she said.
She said the engagement was aimed at engendering dialogue between relevant government agencies and the private sector
to bridge the gap for provision of resources for SARCs.
“It is also to elicit commitments from private sector stakeholders in support of resource mobilisation for SARCs toward
improved service delivery,”Ahuwan said.(NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
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