Azeez Folorunso
THE Executive Director of Centre Against Injustice and Domestic Violence (CAIDOV), Otunba Gbenga Soloki Friday led his team to the national secretariat of Women Arise in Lagos where they sought partnership in the fight against sexual and gender-based violence.
The working visit was necessitated by the resolve of the human rights protection organisation’s leadership to collaborate with impeccable brands in the humanities that continue to sensitise the people on their rights and how to fight for them, regardless of class or creed.
Speaking at the meeting, Otunba Soloki lauded the tenacity and passion of Women Arise led by Dr Joe Odumakin as the organisation has impacted immensely on humanity. He further noted that CAIDOV, having been daunted by the increasing rate of sexual and gender-based violence in Lagos and the country as a whole, will be organising a roundtable where experts on humanities will deliberate and proffer a lasting solution to the social vice eroding family values as a society.
Otunba Soloki hinted at plans to take the advocacy to the grassroots, hence Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area led by Engr. Seyi Buraimoh will be the next port of call in the series of strategies mapped out for implementation to nip the social menace in the bud.
Corroborating Otunba Soloki’s stance, Comrade Olawale Omotaje (aka Saint) averred that the hand of collaboration extended to CAIDOV by Women Arise will spur more revolutionary tendencies in policy and programmes of both state and non-state actors, bearing in mind that it is Nigerians that can make or mar the country.
While acknowledging the relentless commitment of men like Professor Wole Soyinka, Professor Pat Utomi, Late Alhaji Balarabe Musa, Dr Tunde Bakare and Otunba Gbenga Soloki to rid our society of social vices like domestic violence and gender-based violence, President of Women Arise, Dr Joe Odumakin urged the team to continue to engage the people at the grassroots. “There is no price too high to pay for our collective development and progress as a people”, she noted.
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