Due to the high rate of sexual assault and Gender-based violence going on in the country, a new development has occurred in Ekiti state.
Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Mrs Bisi Fayemi, on Thursday, established more sexual Assault Centres for victims of sexual assault.
Inaugurating the centres in Ikole-Ekiti and Ikere-Ekiti, Mrs Fayemi emphasised the need for people to expose violators of sexual assault laws no matter how highly placed.
She emphasized on zero tolerance for Gender-Based Violence, most especially sexual assault, with the affirmation that anyone found guilty would not be spared, but punished accordingly
Mrs Fayemi explained that the centres were established to offer free medical, legal and psychological
services to survivors in the area
The Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Oyebanji Filani and his counterpart in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Dr Adebimpe Aderiye, thanked the governor’s wife for her support to victims.
They said that the centres would serve the North and South senatorial districts where they were located, noting that traumatised students are adequately catered for.
The State Coordinator, Sexual Assault Referral Centres, Mrs Rita Ilevbare, charged the staff of the two centres to see their duties as a call to national service which required due diligence, empathy, utmost confidentiality and at times personal financial cost.
She appealed to security agencies to support the functionalities of the centres to achieve success.
NAN reports that apart from the Moremi referral centre at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, the newly inaugurated centres were located within the premises of specialist hospitals in the towns.
May this be the beginning of good things in Nigeria, and we all pray for more to come.
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