Through its Ministry of Women Affairs, the Federal Government is prepared to introduce mobile courts in order to address cases of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the country.
A mobile court would help us in our advocacy against SGBV, according to the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohaneye, at a briefing on Monday in Abuja. Despite advocating and spending money, nothing has changed.
In her first 100 days in office, she plans to achieve this part of the reforms and targets she disclosed.
“When victims report, police will come in for arrest, we will take the victim straight to the hospital to confirm and then the mobile courts come in to ensure justice is served.”
She stressed the need for a different approach to interventions targeting grassroots women. She highlighted the importance of working with women cooperatives to implement empowerment projects that can be sustained by the recipients beyond the initial government support.
“The narrative has changed in this ministry. We have decided to forge ahead with more sustainable moves that will impact our women and children.
“Sanitary towels being given to girls in some schools from time to time is not sustainable; therefore, we have decided that instead of giving them the sanitary towels, we set up sanitary pad production ventures. Sharing gas cylinders to rural women is also not sustainable; the ministry is concerned about who refills the gas stove for the rural woman after the first refill. We have decided to, instead, give them charcoal burners and biogas stoves among others,” she noted.
In a meeting with students’ union representatives on the sidelines of the briefing, the minister reiterated government’s stand with Nigerian women, girls and boys, as well as her stand for justice on any case of sexual harassment in the country.
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