Thirteen persons have been convicted for Gender-Based Violence (GBV) offences in Delta State from March, 2023, to date.
Mrs Faith Okpohworho, Director of Women Development and Gender Affairs in the state’s ministry of Women Affairs, who disclosed this in Asaba during a one-day step down Training of Trainers (TOT) and service providers on the use of the National GBV Dashboard in the state, frowned at the absence of GBV data from the ministry to the National Dashboard
However, she said the ministry had successfully uploaded into the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons’ (NAPTIP’s) database 91 cases of GBV, out of which 13 offenders had been convicted.
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