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Tukur Muntari The National Council for Child Rights Advocate of Nigeria has called on the government at all levels to establish a mini court that would ensure settlement and amicable resolution of the issue of Gender-Based Violence between families. The Kano State Coordinator of the NCCRAN, Hajia Aisha Kabuga, made the call on Wednesday during a roundtable discussion on GBV and other issues affecting families. She noted that dragging GBV issues before conventional courts often times compound already worsened situations.
According to her, the issue of GBV has destroyed many families as well as led to untold hardship between husbands, wives, and children, hence the need to handle it with utmost attention and care. Kabuga disclosed that NCCRAN in the state had treated no fewer than 120 cases of GBV “Our organisation was able to educate and stress before the various families, especially the aggrieved families the side effect of allowing the issue to escalate to being separated,” she said. She noted that as a result of intervention, many families have accepted to be reconciled, and they are peacefully living together because, “We do visit them on a follow-up.
” Speaking further, she stressed that most of the relations of both husband and wife always compounded the grievances between husband and wife by preferring to drag the GBV issues before the law courts. According to her, the way forward to finding a lasting solution to GBV is for the government to come in by enlightening and educating members of the communities on the need to always give peace a chance to reign. She insisted that without the government’s intervention, it would be highly impossible for either Civil Society Organisations and other bodies to resolve such issues because they are currently highly technical and cumbersome to tackle.
The GBV Kano Coordinator said the roundtable was aimed at bringing together some stakeholders, including human rights and community leaders, with a view to brainstorm on how to address the issues of GBV. “With the level of participants, which cut across all members of the societies, they would be able to preach to members in their respective areas the need to avoid GBV,” Kabuga maintained. Copyright PUNCH All rights reserved.
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