NCWS raises alarm over alleged online harassment of women leaders in Taraba

The Taraba State section of the National Council of Women Societies (NCWS) has raised concerns implicit alleged cases of cyberbullying, intimidation and blackmail targeting women successful enactment positions crossed the state.

The assembly warned that the inclination could harm the reputations of women successful nationalist work and discourage qualified women from seeking enactment positions.

NCWS President successful Taraba, Mrs Mercy Daniel, raised the interest connected Tuesday during a property briefing successful Jalingo, describing the improvement arsenic a signifier of gender-based integer violence.

Daniel alleged that immoderate women leaders had been subjected to coordinated online campaigns, idiosyncratic threats and defamatory publications aimed astatine undermining their nonrecreational and idiosyncratic reputations.

She said the alleged activities included societal media harassment, gender-based insults, intimidation and the circulation of doctored photographs, deepfakes and different allegedly compromising materials.

Among those she identified arsenic having been targeted were Dr Aisha Shehu, Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo; Dr Echuseh Audu, Executive Secretary of the Ta...