Bisi Fayemi Inaugurates Clinic For Victims of Sexual Assault

On Thursday, the Wife of the Ekiti State Governor, Mrs. Bisi Fayemi, inaugurated more Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC) for victims of sexual assault.

As she inaugurated the centres in Ikole-Ekiti and Ikere-Ekiti, Mrs. Fayemi emphasised the need for community dwellers to expose violators of sexual assault laws no matter how highly placed.

She reiterated zero tolerance for Gender-Based Violence, (GBV) most especially sexual assault, with the assurance that anyone found culpable would not be spared.

Mrs. Fayemi explained that the centres were established to offer free services for survivors in the area of medical assistance, legal, psychological, and law enforcement, among others.

In their remarks, the Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Oyebanji Filani, and his counterpart in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Dr. Adebimpe Aderiye, thanked the governor’s wife for her support for victims.

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They that the centres would serve the North and South senatorial districts where they were located, noting that traumatised students are adequately provided for in the arrangement of the facilities.

Also, the State Coordinator, Sexual Assault Referal Centres, Mrs. Rita Ilevbare, charged the staff of the two centres to see their duties as a call to national service which required due diligence, empathy, utmost confidentiality, and at times personal financial cost.

She appealed to security agencies to support the functionalities of the centres to achieve success.

NAN reports that apart from, the Moremi referral centre at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, (EKSUTH), Ado-Ekiti, the newly inaugurated centres were located within the premises of the specialist hospitals in the towns.

Other dignitaries who were at the inauguration include Chief Monisade Afuye, the Deputy Governor-elect, and Dr. Olayemi Oyebanji, the wife of Ekiti Governor-elect, among others.