Traditional rulers urged to lead fight against gender violence

The Chairman of the Multi-Stakeholder Action Committee connected Gender Based Violence, GBV, Prevention, Oba Adedokun Abolarin, the Orangun of Oke-Ila Orangun, has declared that the extortion of women and girls remains non-negotiable.

Oba Abolarin besides stressed that accepted rulers indispensable enactment arsenic champions of preservation, insisting that civilization should ne'er beryllium utilized arsenic a shield to warrant silence, injustice oregon harmful practices.

The accepted ruler was speaking astatine the Osun State normal of accepted rulers for sex based unit prevention on Tuesday at the Osun State Secretariat, Abere.

The accepted rulers were convened by ActionAid Nigeria, successful collaboration with the Osun State Ministry of Women Affairs, Children and Social Welfare and the multi-stakeholder enactment committee connected Gender-Based Violence (GBV) prevention to fortify efforts against GBV successful the state.

He noted that the convention’s taxable addressed the responsibilities of accepted rulers arsenic custodians of culture, urging them to instrumentality deliberate steps to extremity gender-based unit wrong their communities.

The monarch revealed that stakeholders had facilitated assemblage engagements focusing connected violence, silence, accountability and protecti...