Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday lamented that the lockdown declared to curtail the spread of COVID-19 caused what he described as a steep increase in sexual and gender-based violence.
He said information available to him showed that 105 of such incidents were reported in the Federal Capital Territory alone between March 23 and May 29, 2020.
He said, “I am told that between March 23 and May 29, 2020, the FCT Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Response Team received an overwhelming 105 incidents; an average of 13 per week, up from the usual five to six incidents per week, pre-COVID-19. “What these figures show is an escalation of an already disgraceful trend of violence against women and girls in the country.”
“We will work with all actors to detect and punish the perpetrators of these sickening acts and work even harder to prevent their occurrence,” he said.
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