Lockdown: Domestic violence on the increase, says NAPTIP

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Lockdown: Domestic violence on the increase, says NAPTIP
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“Domestic and sexual abuses have been crazy. The cases are increasing. I think some men are suffering from cabin fever. They are not used to staying at home with their wives.'

National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related offences has decried the increasing cases of rape, incest and domestic abuses among Nigerians during the stay-at-home order due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The palliatives were donated by the Alumni of the Association of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Plateau State, to the Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory Administration, Ramatu Aliyu and then delivered to NAPTIP. She said: “Domestic and sexual abuses have been crazy. The cases are increasing. I think some men are suffering from cabin fever. They are not used to staying at home with their wives. So the more their wives are in their faces, the more they get angry and beat them up. We recorded over 30 cases in a certain period.

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