Ogun govt partners group to tackle sexual harassment in tertiary institutions

Following the summation successful the complaint of intersexual harassment successful Ogun State, the authorities authorities has collaborated with a non-governmental organization, Gender Mobile Initiative, to tackle the menace successful tertiary institutions.

The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Abayomi Arigbabu made this known during a stakeholders gathering with absorption of the ministry and heads of tertiary institutions held astatine Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

The gathering according to him focused connected the state-level adoption of the Model Anti-Sexual Harassment Policy successful Tertiary Institutions successful Ogun State.

Arigbabu stated that it is intensifying efforts towards improving a strategy of effectual effect and accountability successful campuses crossed Nigeria.

The Commissioner commended the Federal Government for considering Ogun arsenic a pioneer authorities for the step-down of the policy, saying intersexual harassment poses a large menace to the aboriginal of learners and urged the stakeholders to enactment unneurotic to observe the causes and make an effectual argumentation for the prevention of the menace.

” It is imperative for heads of institutions and different applicable stakeholders to prioritise the combat against intersexual harassment due to the fact that if it is not curbed, it tin pb to intelligence problems and abrupt death”, helium said.

Speaking, Executive Director of Gender Mobile Initiative, Omowunmi Ogunrotimi stated that probe conducted successful 2018 revealed that implicit 70 percent of undergraduates had experienced intersexual harassment, appealing to the heads of institutions to emergence against it earlier it gets retired of hand.

Remarking, Registrar, Ogun State Polytechnic of Health and Allied Sciences, Ilese-Ijebu, Mrs Abimbola Oyefesobi and the Dean of Student Affairs, Covenant University, Ota, Mrs. Shola Coker enjoined victims of intersexual harassment to talk out, adding that a batch of sensitisation programme should beryllium carried retired to power and forestall the case.

Ogun govt partners radical to tackle intersexual harassment successful tertiary institutions