Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has called on authorities concern to ensure close monitoring of educational activities in all higher institutions to strengthen fight against gender base violence.
Gender officer of CITAD Zainab Aminu during a monthly press conference today in Kano said, though, there is a visible decline in reported cases in the month of August, more need to be done to check the menace.
She said, 100 cases were reported as compared to the 140 cases reported in the previous month.
She said, there need for the establishment of a gender abuse monitoring unit in higher institutions, ministry of education, and its parastatals for monitoring educational activities at various levels.
She said that it is apt for the government as part of the CITAD recommendations to domesticate the child’s protection bill or review the existing penal code as well as the establishment of special courts for trying perpetrators of gender-based violence.
Zainab Aminu also stressed that as much as CITAD continues to monitor and report, an urgent appeal is brought forth particularly to parents, relatives, guardians, caregivers, all and sundry to report cases to the various agencies handling GBV cases.
She also said that keeping silent would not help matters, which she said by keeping mute, the perpetrators would consider it authorization of acceptability.
