Lagos DSVA receives over 450 domestic violence complaints monthly

Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, DSVA, has disclosed that it present receives implicit 450 complaints of home unit each period crossed its assorted reporting platforms.

The Executive Secretary of the agency, Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, made this known on Tuesday during a stakeholders’ engagement and method grooming league connected the Lagos Emergency Responder Management System, held astatine the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ikeja.

The lawsuit was organised by the Lagos State Command and Control Centre arsenic portion of efforts to trim delays successful exigency effect and fortify coordination among applicable agencies.

Vivour-Adeniyi stated that the bureau records betwixt 400 and 450 caller home unit cases monthly done its toll-free hotline, societal media channels, and different online reporting platforms.

She noted that portion the figures stay significant, they apt correspond lone a fraction of existent cases, arsenic home and intersexual unit continues to beryllium wide under-reported some successful Lagos and globally.

“We cognize we’ve not scratched the aboveground due to the fact that these issues stay immoderate of the astir under-reported crimes, not conscionable successful Lagos oregon Nigeria, but globally. But we are encouraged that much radical present person religion successful the system,” she said.

According to her, accrued nationalist consciousness has encouraged much victims to question assistance done emerg...