Obasa advises reconciliation of domestic and sexual violence agency bill 2020 with child rights law.

The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. ( Dr.) Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa received in audience on Monday, November 30, 2020, groups of Grassroots Organisations and Women Rights Defenders in Lagos State who presented him with a joint statement in commemoration of the 2020 16-days of Activism tagged ” ORANGE THE WORLD: FUND, RESPOND, PREVENT, AND COLLECT.” The groups among other requests listed a need for comprehensive laws to end the menace of sexual and domestic violence against women and girls. Rt. Hon Obasa assured them of the backing of the assembly while urging them to seek the cooperation of the Nigeria Police Force.

The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa has advised the House Committee on Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation to take a careful look at Child Rights Law 2015 and Domestic Violence Law 2015 and reconcile them with the new Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency Bill 2020 in order to avoid repetition and contradictions.

Obasa made this statement on Monday, November 30, 2020, during plenary session after the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency Bill 2020, “A bill for a law to provide for the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, the Establishment of the Sex Offenders Register and for other Connected Purposes”, passed the Second Reading and was committed to the House Standing Committee on Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.

” We need to put these laws side by side with this new bill so that we would not be repeating what we already have in place.

” The committee has a lot to do by going through the existing laws in comparison to the new one which we have before us”.

” We should also look at the issue of establishing new agency when we have many already. When we have too many agencies that is another addition to government expenditure”.

The Speaker also implored the committee to sample the opinions of various bodies particularly women NGOs in the order to know what they want.

He said a law should not be about punitive measures alone. That it should also be about bringing a lasting solutions to a particular problem.

He was particularly concerned about how to take care of children who he said are victims of separation from domestic violence prone families.

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