Centre LSD Calls on Tinubu and Governors to Boost Funding for GBV Prevention

According to the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development (Centre LSD), President Bola Tinubu and all levels of government need to give financing and legislative changes for gender-based violence prevention a priority.

According to the Center, financing and changes that promote gender equality in Nigeria must be given top priority by the federal, state, and local governments.

Speaking at a gathering in Abuja on Friday, Dr. Otive Igbuzor, the Executive Director of Center LSD, stated that funding reforms has become essential as part of a larger effort to eradicate gender-based violence, or GBV.

Women have been socially, economically, and politically marginalized in almost every nation, he claims.

In comparison to men, women are less likely to have access to social assistance, and one in ten of them live in poverty. Women experience more food insecurity and more water and sanitation shortages than men do.

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The situation in Nigeria is more unstable. There was a 57-year gap between the Clifford Constitution, which granted voting rights to men in 1922, and the 1979 Constitution, which granted voting rights to women throughout Nigeria. Nigeria’s early constitutions (1922 Clifford, 1946 Richards, 1951 Macpherson) limited voting rights to adult males.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics and the National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), over 35% of Nigerian women have been physically abused, and millions more are subjected to emotional, sexual, and financial abuse. These statistics are concerning.

These injustices are also known to be fueled by patriarchal ideals that are ingrained in our social, cultural, and even legal systems. Men all too frequently participate in destructive behaviors as passive bystanders or as direct perpetrators of violence.