Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has lamented various forms of abuse Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are subjected to across the centres, especially in the North-Eastern part of the country.
He revealed that the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) compiled a total of 5,623 incidents involving child abuse and other sexual and gender-based violence from January 2018 to July 2022 for Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States.
According to him, the study said that, “640 arrests, or 88.6 percent of the total number of SGBV incidents in four years, were recorded, apart from the 82 offenders that have been charged across various courts located in the three States”.
The report also noted that the centre secured eight convictions out of the total number of sexual offenders taken to courts