Ikpeazu with members FIDA during GBV training session
The Office of the Wife of the Governor of Abia State through the International Federation of Women Lawyers(FIDA) in collaboration with Vicar Hope Foundation has organised a 4, day training workshop for para legals with focus on gender based violence.
Reasons for the workshop is to deepen the response to gender based cases in the rural places by training rural based people to recognise and respond within legal context to cases of gender based violence.
Declaring the workshop open at Umuobiakwa Townhall in Obingwa Local Government Area, the wife of Abia Governor, Mrs. Nkechi Ikpeazu, said that the training will provide valuable reporting and referal pathways for data and survivor services to victims .
According to her, ” those to be trained are retired civil servants, teachers, csommunity youth leaders, retired members of the police force and others from recognised institutions especially persons who have capacity to the work”.
In her remarks, the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Chief Mrs. Ukachi Amala, states that they can to sensitise the public and make known to abusers that enough is enough to gender based violence.
Earlier, the coordinator of the workshop and Abia chairperson for FIDA, Barrister, Akudo Amanamba, said that FIDA is very privileged to partner with the wife of the Governor to ensure that violence against women and children is stamp out of the society.
In a related development, the Governor’s wife also unveiled a bill board at Eziukwu Road, Aba with the message “enough is enough, say no to gender based violence “.
She also paid a visit to Aba remand home and women development centre Umuahia, where destitutes are kept for resuscitation and onward reintegration back to the society.
She donated food items, toiletries and assured them that the state government through Governor Ikpeazu, will not abandon them but do the needful to ensure that they are well taking care of.
Ikpeazu with members FIDA during GBV training session 
