M ORE than 2,000 sexual and other Gender-Based Violence (GBV) cases have been recorded in Nigeria in the last ten years.
An official of the Civil Society Organisation, Ophelia Adeleye, disclosed this in Calabar as the 16-day activism on GBV continues. Adeleye, the communication officer of Stand Up Against Rape, spoke on the sidelines of a women’s event to advocate for greater inclusion of women in politics and a reduction in GBV.
“There have been more than 2,000 GBV cases across the states in Nigeria in which we have intervened.
“These Nigerian survivors have indirectly benefited from legal, medical, psychosocial, and financial support as well as counseling,” she said.
Adeleye disclosed that only two percent of this number are male survivors.
She explained that the statistics for men are far lower because men do not like to speak out.
“Only 2% of GBV cases are men. This is because, for many reasons, they don’t like to speak out about their challenges.
“We’ve done advocacy and have counseled about 100,000 men. We have met them at public motor parks and other fora where we assembled them to listen to and counsel them.”
