A non-governmental organisation, Challenged Parenthood Initiative (CPI), has expressed concern over violence perpetrated against women in the just concluded governorship election in Kogi State.
The Executive Director of CPI, Eunice Agbogun, raised the issue in Lokoja yesterday while presenting the organisation’s post-election statement on violence against women during the 2019 governorship election.
She said CPI and other partners, with the support of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), had been carrying out the Stop Violence Against Women in Politics (Stop-VAWIP) campaign in the state to check violence against women and encourage them to actively participate in politics.
Agbogun said the Stop-VAWIP campaign opened toll free hotlines for the electorate during the just concluded election and that over 100 calls reporting concerns about violence against women, integrity of the electoral process and electoral malpractices were received, adding that 28 of the calls specifically reported violence against women in politics.
