Why Nigeria requires global support against Boko Haram – Mark

Senate President, David Mark, recently took the campaign against atrocities of the Boko Haram in some states in the North-east to the 131st session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, IPU, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Terrorist groups, including Boko Haram, he told fellow parliamentarians, had the capacity to wipe out nations if urgent and collective efforts are not taken to contain them.
Addressing the session of IPU on “Achieving Gender Equality, Ending Violence Against Women,” the Senate President noted that all hands must be on deck to end violence of all kinds, especially against women and children “because they are the greatest casualties of the meaningless mayhem on the Nigerian state.”
He stressed that “Nigeria welcomes the efforts of international partners and friends, who have stood by us in this trying time.”
As a country, he said Nigeria commends the efforts of international community, especially on the London Conference held last June on ending sexual violence against women.
“Whereas institutional and policy efforts to combat gender imbalance continue to yield result, the Nigerian state is convinced that the result must not only be sustained but must also be multi-sectoral and integrated,” he said.
To this end, he disclosed that government has embarked on massive re-orientation and education to end violence against women. He listed efforts by the Nigerian legislature against violence to include elimination of violence from society, violence against persons bill, Gender Equality Bill and Women Empowerment Bill as well as Girl-Child Marriage and female circumcision (Prohibition) law among others...post by expdonaloaded