The Executive Director of the Centre Against Injustice and Domestic Violence (CAIDOV), Otunba Gbenga Soloki, led his team to the National Secretariat of Women Arise in Lagos.
The working visit was necessitated by the resolve of the human rights protection organisation’s leadership to collaborate with impeccable brands in the humanities that continue to sensitise people on their rights and how to fight for them, regardless of class and creed.
Speaking at the meeting, Otunba Gbenga Soloki lauded the tenacity and passion of Women Arise, led by Dr. Joe Odumakin, noting that the organisation has immensely impacted humanity. He further stated that CAIDOV, faced with the increasing rate of sexual and gender-based violence in Lagos and the country as a whole, will organise a roundtable where experts in the humanities will deliberate and proffer lasting solutions to this social vice that erodes our family values as a society.
Otunba Soloki mentioned that his team has concluded plans to take the advocacy to the grassroots, starting with Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area, led by Engr. Seyi Buraimoh. This is part of a series of strategies mapped out for implementation to nip this social menace in the bud.
Corroborating Otunba Soloki’s stance, Comrade Olawale Omotaje, aka Saint, affirmed that the collaboration extended to CAIDOV by Women Arise will spur more revolutionary tendencies in the policies and programmes of both state and non-state actors. He emphasized that Nigerians themselves have the power to make or mar the country.
While acknowledging the relentless commitment of individuals like Professor Wole Soyinka, Professor Pat Utomi, the late Alhaji Balarabe Musa, Dr. Tunde Bakare, and Otunba Gbenga Soloki to rid our society of social vices like domestic violence and gender-based violence, the President of Women Arise, Dr. Joe Odumakin, urged the team to continue engaging people at the grassroots.
“There is no price too high to pay for our collective development and progress as a people,” she noted.
