CAIDOV seeks partnership with Women Arise in the fight against Sexual and Gender Based Violence
The Executive Director of Centre Against Injustice and Domestic Violence, CAIDOV, Otunba Gbenga Soloki led his team to the National Secretariat of Women Arise in Lagos.
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 it, regardless of class and creed.
Speaking at the meeting, Otunba Gbenga 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 with 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 on our family values as a society.
Otunba Soloki hinted that his team has concluded plans to take the advocacy to the grass-roots, hence Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area led by Engr. Seyi Buraimoh is the next point 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 sure spur more revolutionary tendencies in policy and programmes of both state and non state actors, bearing in mind that it is we 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, the President of Women Arise, Dr Joe Odumakin urged the team to continue in engaging the people at the grass-roots. There is no price too high to pay for our collective development and progress as a people, she noted.
