August 31, (THEWILL) – The Borno State Commissioner of Police, Yusuf Lawal, has described the alarming rate of Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) witnessed in Borno as a result of 14 years of devastation from Boko Haram insurgency conflicts in the state.
Yusuf expressed concerns while speaking with newsmen during a one-week capacity-building for 92 gender desk officers across the Command organised by the Borno State Police Command, in partnership with the UK International Stability Fund and the Lake Chad Basin Support Framework, held in Maiduguri.
According to him, he said the training aimed at strengthening the capacity of personnel to investigate cases of SGBV through a more coordinated and responsive approach because the gender based violence is not isolated to other crime but a spillover effect to suicides, drug abuse, broken home and others.
“It is a little wonder that from the National Database. We have seen statistics of gender related violence on the high-rise in this part of the country. So it is, of course, necessary that we need the required intervention and training to be able to handle the emerging cases of SGBV.
“The Bono state is transiting from over a decades of Insurgency. And the peace has now returned, one of the fallout of years of Insurgency is that the societal fabric has been dislocated and in any conflict, the vulnerable at the first to suffer women, children,and the aged are the first victim in these years of Insurgency.
“The training is not just theoretical but practical to give them the facilities to be very effective in investigating sexual and gender-based violence-related cases”, CP Yusuf said.
CP Yusuf also charged the trainees to go back to their divisions, and cascade the knowledge and skills they have acquired from the training to other personnel in their various divisions.
The training themed “Nigerian Police Force Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Investigators Course for Implementation of Gender Desk.
I am Ladi Dapson, a general writer with thewill. I cover Borno and Yobe states respectively.
I based Maiduguri, Borno State Capital.
I can be reached via [email protected].
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