{"id":60827,"date":"2023-11-28T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T16:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/public-cautioned-against-covering-up-crime-including-sgbv"},"modified":"2023-11-28T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T16:34:16","slug":"public-cautioned-against-covering-up-crime-including-sgbv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/public-cautioned-against-covering-up-crime-including-sgbv","title":{"rendered":"Public cautioned against covering up crime including SGBV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>Chief Inspector Stella Niabi, the Station Officer of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) at the Upper West Regional Command of the Ghana Police Service, has advised the general public to stop covering up issues of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) so as to make the society a better place to live in<\/b>.<\/p>\n

She said the lives of many people and the sanity of society was at risk when perpetrators of crime are concealed.<\/p>\n

Chief Inspector Niabi made this call at the sidelines of a Girls Meetup, a quarterly meeting of young girls, facilitated by Community Aid for Rural Development (CARD Ghana) as part of its She Leads campaign over the weekend in Wa, Upper West Region.<\/p>\n

She advised the public against the \u201cTigyaabunyeni\u201d mantra which literary means \u201cwe are all one\u201d and usually comes up among the people of the Upper West Region when crimes are at stake, to ask for pardon for perpetrators.<\/p>\n

She encouraged the people to take after the example of the famous \u201cAnaata vs the Republic\u201d case in which some members of the community actively took up and followed the matter to its conclusion.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Chief Inspector Niabi said there have been series of reports by the public following the \u201cAnaata vs the Republic\u201d case which she said, was commendable.<\/p>\n

She, therefore, encouraged the public to continue to report any such cases to the police for investigations and redress.<\/p>\n

Giving a message of solidarity at the commencement of the 16 Days of Activism, Chief Inspector Niabi said the advocacy for women\u2019s rights was not a competition of the sexes, between men and women, but a call for equal opportunities for women and girls to function well in society.<\/p>\n

She said men should not see women as competitors but partners in complementing each other\u2019s roles to make society a much better place.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Girls Meetup, according to the She Leads Project Coordinator and Acting Executive Director of CARD Ghana, Ms. Ernestina Biney, was to sensitize the young girls to sexual harassment and to help them to develop confidence and assertiveness in dealing with issues of harassment.<\/p>\n

One of the girls who participated in the session, Rahima Yahaya said: \u201cAnd what I learnt again is to stay away from men and boys just for me to get a better future. I want to become a journalist, so if I don\u2019t stay away from boys and bad friends now, I wouldn\u2019t be getting to achieve my dreams and future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will tell them [friends] to stay away from men and bad friends and the bad advice that they\u2019ve been giving to them. Some people always sleep with men because of 10 pesewas chewing gum and some of them, 2 cedis, so I would like to advise them to stay from the men and bad friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

The She Leads campaign, aimed at increasing sustained influence of girls and young women on decision-making and the transformation of gender norms, is implemented in the Upper West Region by the CARD Ghana with support from Plan International Ghana.<\/p>\n

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