No fewer than 200 girls in public secondary schools were empowered with teargas canisters by the Ogun State Government to help them fight against sexual assaulters.
The Director of Women Empowerment Services, Ministry of Women Affairs, Wonuola Kazeem, disclosed this during a close out/accountability meeting on strengthening access to community-based psychosocial support for survivors of violence against women and girls.
She spoke at the programme organised by the Centre For Women Health and Information held in Abeokuta, the state capital.
Kazeem disclosed that 200 female students have been given the teargas canister as protection against rapists.
She added that the state government has also visited 90 schools to empower the students and sensitize them.
She said “We’ve been to 90 schools out of all the schools in Ogun state, to empower them on gender based violence and to reduce both harassment and bully in schools.
“Government is making efforts to reduce this gender based violence in schools, and during our sensitization in school, we’ve equally educated them and empowered even the girls.
“In higher institutions now, we have empowered girls with (teargas) canisters that they can use to defend themselves because the occurrence of gender-based violence can’t continue in the state, so we have empowered them with canisters.”
Rape: Ogun govt gives 200 schoolgirls teargas canisters for self-defence
No fewer than 200 girls in public secondary schools were empowered with teargas canisters by the Ogun State Government to help them fight against sexual assaulters.
The Director of Women Empowerment Services, Ministry of Women Affairs, Wonuola Kazeem, disclosed this during a close out/accountability meeting on strengthening access to community-based psychosocial support for survivors of violence against women and girls.
She spoke at the programme organised by the Centre For Women Health and Information held in Abeokuta, the state capital.
Kazeem disclosed that 200 female students have been given the teargas canister as protection against rapists.
She added that the state government has also visited 90 schools to empower the students and sensitize them.
She said “We’ve been to 90 schools out of all the schools in Ogun state, to empower them on gender based violence and to reduce both harassment and bully in schools.
“Government is making efforts to reduce this gender based violence in schools, and during our sensitization in school, we’ve equally educated them and empowered even the girls.
“In higher institutions now, we have empowered girls with (teargas) canisters that they can use to defend themselves because the occurrence of gender-based violence can’t continue in the state, so we have empowered them with canisters.”
