It has become a
criminal offence for any worker in the employment of the Lagos State
Government, who has a direct dealing with children, not to report any case of
rape to the appropriate authorities.
The Coordinator of the
Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team created by the state government,
Titilola Vivour -Adeniyi, said any of such mandated reporters who failed in
this duty risked being jailed for two years.
Vivour-Adeniyi said
this on Tuesday during a courtesy visit by the DSVRT to the Punch Place on the
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
According to her, those
captured in the mandated reporters group include school teachers, nurses and
social workers, among others.
She, however, said
there was an ongoing effort by the DSVRT to see that the executive order made
in 2014 was passed into law so that more people could be captured under it.
- Punch
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