The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in Zamfara State has said it received 93 complaints of domestic violence, abandonment of families, illegal detentions and harassment of citizens by State and non-state actors in the State.
The State Coordinator of the Commission, Abdullahi Abubakar disclosed this in a chat with ait.live in Gusau, the State capital, where he attributed the prevailing insecurity and poverty being experienced by the people as factors contributory to what he called the alarming increase in incidents of domestic violence and human rights abuses in the State.
Abubakar is pressing on the Federal and the Zamfara State Governments to provide Camps for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), to save them from abuses and other social vices.
He decried the way the IDPs are left to roam the streets without care, which is giving room for some unscrupulous individuals to take advantage of them, especially the young women, girl-child and the children, who have been deprived of education and decent livelihood.
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The Zamfara State NHRC Coordinator called on the Federal and the State governments to provide humanitarian interventions to alleviate the hardship confronting the citizens, to avert a looming danger in the future.
He revealed that several children have been abandoned by their parents in Zamfara State for their inability to cater for them, because of the harsh economic situation being faced in the country.
Abdullahi Abubakar emphasized the need for the Zamfara State government to collate the data of persons who have been displaced from their communities and also those of abandoned families to enable it, properly address their plights.
(Editor: Ken Eseni)
