The ministry’s spokesperson said the training equipped health workers with the knowledge and skills to provide professional, compassionate, and timely care to survivors.
Mrs Sahid-Adebambo said that society as a whole shared a responsibility to protect the safety and well-being of children.
Ms Vivour-Adeniyi urged the students to leverage their influence as digital natives to address the rising issue of technology-facilitated SGBV.
“We, therefore, intend to engage all demographics, including men, women and children,” he said.
Mr Kulobi said that prior to the NGO project, cases of SGBV was high.
Ms Odukoya said that though some persons did not engage in such violence, they became part of the perpetrators by advising the survivors to keep silent.
“Orange marshals will monitor gender-based violence in their respective wards and report it.’’
He urged men to always speak up and have at least five persons they could rely on to discuss their mental health issues.
Attah Sisters Helping Hand Foundation (ASHHF), an NGO, has trained 10 paralegals to tackle sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Bauchi.
The commission said that “About 90 per cent of the cases recorded are SGBV for neglect and abandoning children by parents.”
