WHEEI Meets Stakeholders to Eradicate Women, Children Violence in Nigeria
By Ibrahim Hamisu
The Women Health Empowerment and Emancipation Initiative (WHEEI) has organized a meeting of stakeholders on human abuse in society aimed at finding ways to solve problems of violence against women and children which are now becoming prevalent in our societies.
The event which was held on Monday in Kano saw health and follow-up organizations that are related to violence against women and children at the level of Kano state and the country as a whole.
In her remark, the Program Officer of the Women’s Health Empowerment and Emancipation Initiative (WHEEI), Fatima Muhammad, stated that the purpose of the meeting is to explained that the best way to curtail the menace of women and children abuse is cooperating with government officials and organizations like WHEEI and the community in general.
Also speaking the Head, Community Support and Accountability Initiative of the organization, Musa Kaila, stated that they assembled there to ensure that the violence against women and children is banished.
“We have to attract the attention of the government and show it that fighting against gender violence, particularly against women and children, should get a position in its budget system.
“All these fights are not going without money. The money that the government claimed to release meets these women who find themselves in harassment and intimidation. That is why we met to approach the government and make sure that the system is going as it should.”
The chairperson of the National Council for Child Rights Advocate of Nigeria, Kano Chapter, Aisha Haruna Kabuga, stated that abuse against women and children is increasing rather than decreasing, which was the reason why the United Nations dedicated 16 days to remembering and showing compassion for the violence against women and children in the world.
She added, “Recently, underage children were arrested, and they were said to have raised the flag of another country. They were abused, locked up with those who are involved in high ranking crimes, and who can affect their level of mentality.”
She called on the government to open a special court for the abuse of women and children.
“We don’t need to take cases of abuse to our regular courts because it causes family separation. I am sure that these small courts will help to reduce the problems of abuse in this country,” said Aisha Kabuga.
