Fight Against GBV Is A Joint Effort -NISD Charges Stakeholders

Stakeholders across all sectors have been charged to prioritize service to humanity by joining the fight against Gender based Violence at all cost in order to ensure a valence-free society, peace, unity and mutual respect.

The Project Manager for Male Feminist Network of the New Initiative for Social Development (NISD), Olusegun Ojo gave this charge at the One-Day Quarterly MFN Dialogue in Ekiti State organized by the NISD.

The Interface which brought together key members of the Male Dominant Groups, representative of the Civil Society Organization, Joint Association of People with Disability, Christian and Islamic Religious Leaders to review progress aimed at sharing experiences, and strengthen internal cohesion in the fight against Gender-based violence.

According to Olusegun, “it is a non-negotiable fact that the culture of Gender-based violence had stayed with us for too long, that it is gradually now becoming endemic, an immoral culture we need to flush out our system for the sake of past and present victims of Gender-based Violence and posterity because the time to erase the bad template is now,

An individual cannot do it alone neither New Initiative for Social Development, it requires joint and concerted efforts, this is why I am charging us that we must use every positive means necessary to join and stay committed to the cause and prioritize it as service to humanity which must prevail and win for sanity and sanctity of our society”-he concluded

Also speaking one after the other, the secretary of the Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD), Ekiti State Chapter and the chairman of Okada Riders Association, comrade Asaolu pledged their support to the cause while assuring NISD that they would change the narrative of Gender-based violence in the state through the structure it has been put in place which known as 3,000 Male Feminist Network Advocates