No fewer than seven cases of rape were reported with some involving minors in various parts of Kano State in the month of June alone.
This was revealed by the Gender-based Violence (GBV) monitoring team of the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) during a press briefing on Thursday.
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CITAD’s GBV Project Manager, Zainab Aminu, said cases of online harassment, sexual abuse and harassment had significantly increased in June when compared with reported cases in May.
“Rape cases were 7, online harassment 22, sexual blackmail 8, sexual harassment 60, sexual abuse 39, wife battering 3 and school violence1.
“In comparison with the data obtained in previous months, GBV cases are still on the increase. 140 cases were reported via our GBV App for the month.
“As much as we continue to monitor and report, we will like to appeal to parents, relatives and others to always report cases to the various agencies handling GBV cases. Keeping silent will not protect the victims who suffer. It encourages the perpetrators to take this silence as a stamp of acceptability,” she added.
She reiterated CITAD’s call to the Kano State government to create special courts for GBV-related cases and monitoring units in schools to help check GBV and to enable students, particularly female students to be protected from abuse.
