“Mr Abdullahi urged couples to be more patient with one another.’’
“Sexual and gender-based violence is more prevalent these days.
Mr Abdullahi said that 42 out of the cases bordered on women and gender matters, while 25 had to do with family abandonment.
Most of the cases were related to issues of women and gender, civil and political rights.
She also said that the petition lacked merit and dismissed it in its entirety.
The cases border on women’s rights, abandonment by family, sexual and domestic violence, rape, child labour, unlawful arrest, detention, and torture.
The NHRC state coordinator, Shehu Abdullahi, in an interview, said 105 of the cases had been treated while the remaining 33 were pending.
He said that while 240 out of the 351 cases had been treated, 111 were pending.
The complaints bordered on sexual and gender violence, threat to life, harmful cultural practices, withcraft, female genital mutilation and abandonment of family responsibility.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in Kano says it has received 238 complaints of human rights abuse between February and March.
