Zamfara: NGO intensifies enlightenment on Access to Justice for GBV victims
By Ibrahim Kaulahi, Gusau
A Nongovernmental organization International Alert IA with the support of UKaid has intensified efforts to enlighten victims of the Gender-based Violence to without any hesitation resolve for access to justice.
This was made known to newsmen in an interview with the project manager, Sunday Momoh Jimoh in Gusau the state capital of Zamfara State during an opening ceremony of a 2-day sensitization seminar organized for communities from Tsafe and Birnin Magaji local government areas.
Mr. Jimoh said the 2-day seminar was organized for a training of community first responders on physiological first aid aimed to promote stability, accountability and access to justice across Zamfara, Kaduna States and the Northwest zone in general.
He noted that, the organization wanted to enlighten vulnerable people in the selected communities from the said two piloting states where most of them are lacking access to justice especially concerning GBV and other security issues.
“My organization has established platforms to further rights of women been affected by GBV and other related cases been caused by insecurity in the pioneer Kaduna and Zamfara States, we vow to educate communities on how best they would acquire access to justice and resist injustice.
“We also have to commend the Zamfara State Ministry of Women and Children for assuring our organization to continue from where we stop especially after the expiration period of our presence in the state”, Momoh has commended.
Also speaking, the Zamfara State Executive Director of Voluntary Aid Initiative (VAI), Musa Umar Aboki, said the main aim of the programme is to sensitize first respondents to reports cases of SGBV to Safe Centres been established across the targeted communities.
Aboki further explained that, by receiving the report, the Safe Centre would link the survivor of the SGBV to numerous services including legal, health, physiological and economic services with a view to ensure adequate measures are taken for the protection of their rights.
