Ogun State Government on Wednesday revealed that it has empowered 200 girls in public secondary schools with teargas canisters to help them fight against sexual assaulters.
The Director of Women Empowerment Services, Ministry of Women Affairs, Wonuola Kazeem, disclosed this during a close out/accountability meeting on strengthening access to community-based psychosocial support for survivors of violence against women and girls.
She spoke at the programme organised by the Centre For Women Health and Information held in Abeokuta, the state capital.
The Director of Administration of CEWHIN, Atinuke Odukoya had earlier reported that a research was carried out in three states in the south West; Ogun, Oyo and Osun which revealed that incest is rampant in Osun, use of diabolical means among pupils for sex is rampant in Ogun state while domestic violence is rampant among the people of Oyo state.
Odukoya said a project was carried out in the three states with a focus on women and girls which later exposed the extent of gender-based violence in the three selected states.
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