DTSG TO APPLY DECISIVE MEASURES AGAINST CHILD ABUSE, OTHER RELATED CRIMES

DTSG TO APPLY DECISIVE MEASURES AGAINST CHILD ABUSE, OTHER RELATED CRIMES

By Manus Emuji

Delta State Government (DTSG) has reiterated its commitment to apply necessary measures against child abuse and domestic violence against children in the state.

The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Mr. Augustine Oghoro, stated this while flagging off a sensitisation campaign on child abuse and other related crimes at the Government Model Secondary School in Asaba.
The exercise was organised by the ministry in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice in the state.

Mr. Oghoro, who spoke on behalf of the Commissioner for Secondary Education, Mrs. Rose Ezewu, her counterpart for Primary Education, Chief Sunday Onoriode, said that child abuse and other related crimes had assumed worrisome dimension.
He stated that there were several cases in connection with such abuses in courts of law across the state, adding that the cases ranged from sexual abuse and molestation to other forms of domestic violence against children.

Mr. Oghoro said that the theme of the campaign, " See Something, Say Something (Speak Out )" was apt,  nothing that at the moment, most of the victims had withdrawn and were unable to speak out on the incidents.

He explained that from available statistics, one out of three girls and one out of five boys had been victims of such abuses before the age of 18, adding that it had resulted in lack of confidence in themselves and had negative impacts on their academic performance.

Mr. Oghoro stated that the campaign was aimed at disseminating relevant information to school age children in order to mitigate their exposure to the hineous crime and to show how to provide necessary information in order to seek redress in court of law against perpetrators who, according to him, may either be their parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties and other relatives and people around their neighbourhood.

Earlier in her talks , the Director of Sexual Offences in the  Ministry of Justice, Mrs. Uche Akamagwuna, emphasised that the rate of sexual violence was alarming in recent times, adding that such sexual violence could occur at home and in school.

Mrs. Akamagwuna disclosed that Ministry of Justice had secured ten  judgement on sexual violence related cases in court in the state, including fathers raping their daughters and other individuals involved in raping and domestic violence, adding that the punishment for rape was life imprisonment.

She advised the children to always report any individual touching or attempting to touch their private parts to the ministries of Basic and Secondary Education and Justice, or  call her on her cell phone for necessary actions

Mrs. Akamagwuna also identified female genital mutilation as another form of violence against women and that wife battering was inclusive.

Other schools where the two ministries took the sensitisation and awareness campaign to included Uzoigwe Primary School, Osadenis Mixed Secondary School and Ogbe-Olie Primary School, Cable point all in Asaba.

The sensitisation continues.

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