Gombe State Government is to partner with relevant NGOs in the country in order to tackle Sexual and Gender-Based Violence as well as to come up with stringent law against rape, kidnapping and others offences against persons.
Such NGOs whose thematic area is to address the incidences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in the state are to form an alliance with the government to fight the menace.null
The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Professor Ibrahim Abubakar Njodi, stated this when he granted audience to Violence Against Persons Alliance, (VAPP), a coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations formed to push for the domestication of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act as has been done in other states including neighbouring Bauchi.
Ibrahim Njodi who expressed sadness over a report ranking the state as number one in the incidences of SGBV said that Gombe state is packaging a stringent law that will address issues such as drug abuse, rape and kidnapping in the state.
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