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SGBV tops agenda as Egbe-Idimu LCDA holds community development meeting

Residents of the Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area (LCDA) held their Community Development Committee meeting on Wednesday at the Community's Town Hall, Alhaja Bus Stop, Alimoso, Lagos.
Egbe-Idimu Community Town Hall

Residents of the Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area (LCDA) held their Community Development Committee meeting on Wednesday at the Community's Multi-purpose Town Hall, Alhaja Bus Stop, Alimoso, Lagos. 

The meeting focused on pressing issues of security, crime, education and environmental safety. Salient issues in the minutes of the last meeting were also finalised after brief deliberations. 

 

 

InShot_20201015_111924876Deliberations at the CDC meeting, yesterday

The issue of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) was the first to be addressed, as the council received the Executive Director of the Women's Right and Health Project (WRAHP) and founder of IRETI Resource Centre, Bose Iro Nsi, who raised concerns about the frequent rape of young girls in Alimosho Local Government Area.

She raised the issue of a schoolgirl, Favour Okechukwu, who was gang-raped to death on the 30th of September in Ejigbo. Another 13-year-old girl was also raped at Egan in Igando.

 

 

InShot_20201015_135427063Bose Iro Nsi, Executive Director of WRAHP, Egbe-Idimu, addressing rape issues at the CDC meeting on Wednesday📸: @whatgoingson