The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said on Saturday that Kwara State has had over 2000 incidents of abuses and violations of human rights this year.
Speaking at the Biennial Convention of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), Kwara State Chapter, held in Ilorin, the state coordinator of the commission, Barrister Jumoke Olaoye, made this claim.
She said “the most prevalent of the human right abuses recorded are child abandonment and wife battering.”
According to Olaoye, increasing public knowledge of the commission’s actions has prompted more people to report rights abuses.
She stated that in order to minimize instances of human rights abuses, the commission has adopted the use of mediation.
Barrister Olaoye pointed out that in order to secure the continuation of settled cases, the commission also worked with traditional institutions and other parties.
Comrade Issa Aremu, Director General of the Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS), lauded the committee’s members for their selfless fight to uphold the rights of the people in his keynote speech.
To make it sustainable, he advised them to link rights with obligations.
The National Vice Chairman of the CDHR, Comrade Ade Ikuesan, asked the public to learn about their rights in his speech.
He urged the committee members to remain vigilant against such human rights abuses.
