A Civil Society Organisation, Gender Mobile Initiative, GMI, said on Tuesday that 70 per cent of the female population in the country’s school system have experienced sexual harassment. DAILY NIGERIAN reports.Information Guide Nigeria
Omowumi Ogunrotimi, the Executive Director of GMI said this in Abuja at a summit on “Anti-Sexual Harassment in Educational Institutions,” co-convened by the group and the Independent Corrupt Practice and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC.
“Perhaps the recent statistics quoted by the World Bank Group on women, law, and business on the prevalence of campus sexual harassment needs to be re-echoed for us to understand the urgency required in addressing sexual harassment,” she said.
Ms Ogunrotimi added that the past few years witnessed global reckoning for perpetrators of sexual harassment, especially by abusers who wield significant power over the abused.JAMB Result
She noted that more stakeholders were needed on the frontline to fight the scourge and stem the tide of sexual harassment in the country.
“That 70 per cent of female students experience sexual harassment is an affront to our shared humanity and values as individuals and as a nation.
“While Nigerian tertiary institutions have become the centre ports for power-driven gender-based violence and harassment, the challenge has not received the required corresponding level of attention.
“This spate of violence has been mainly attributed to lack of a comprehensive anti-sexual harassment policy, lack of confidentiality-driven reporting channels and poor institutional response,” Ms Ogunrotimi said.
“We are not oblivious of the complexities of the systemic challenge we seek to address; we have all been working to nip sexual harassment in the bud before now.
“We know that different organisations are addressing different aspects of the problem,” she added.
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