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By Ebunoluwa Sessou
Religious leaders, traditional rulers and leaders have been urged to distance themselves from allowing justice to prevail when cases of Sexual and Gender Based Violence, SGBV are reported in their communities, saying constant interference allows penetrators to commit more crimes in the society.
This was the major discussion at the Sixth Quarterly Meetings with Civil Society Organisation in Oshodi/Isolo, Ojo Local Governments and Monitor Progress on SGBV Cases Management organized by Women’s Right and Health Project, WRAHP.
WRAHP with the support from European Union, EU-ACT implemented a-12- month project titled, Building Capacity of Civil Society Organisations to promote uptake of justice related social services in Ojo and Oshodi/Isolo local government areas of Lagos State.
The project, Agents for Citizen Driven Transformation was targeted at training CSOs to effectively respond and refer to incidences of abuse in their various communities….
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
