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Sexual and gender based violence is prevalent in the South South and South East-NHRC

Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission, TONY OJUKWU disclosed this when receiving a hundred and thirteen complaints and memorandums from the six geopolitical zones.

 

OJUKWU who spoke at the South-South zone public sitting of the panel  in Benin said the panel had completed sittings in Abuja, Lagos, Owerri and Kano.

 

According to the memoranda received by the National Human Rights Commission Special Investigating Panel on Sexual and Gender Based Violence; South-East has thirty-five, South-South has twenty-six, followed by North-Central with nineteen, North-West has seventeen, South-West is twelve while the North-East has the lowest number of four.

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