 Now the Federation of Women Lawyers in Nigeria, FIDA, Kaduna State Branch and the International Alert IA have declared a state of emergency on sexual and gender-based violence across the state. They stated that these are the one-day sensitization workshop aimed at proffering lasting solution toward the menace. Plus, the Correspondent Habilah Dorefai's report is presented from our studios. The prevalence of sexual violence is on the increase in Kaduna communities, with women and girls mostly affected. To fight this scourge, stakeholders have converged on this workshop. They are advocating more stringent laws against sexual violence, which is a societal menace. Paul Ben-Shima is the country director of International Alert Nigeria. He says the project is crucial towards promoting stability, access to justice and accountability. In our joint commitment to confront and eradicate deeply rooted harmful cultural norms and practices that for us have been responsible in promoting sexual and gender-based violence in the various communities of Kaduna State. To eradicate those cultural norms and practices that underpin LGBT Aisha Mohammed is the Kaduna State Chairperson of FIDA. She says stringent and capital punishment must be put in place for perpetrators of these acts as stipulated in the law, urging the government to do more in curbing the menace. Advocating that more laws be put in place, stringent laws, they have to be very severe. Even though we know that the former governor Malam Nasru El-Fahi reviewed the law on rape, he now placed it on to castration. But it's as if it's not making any impact, I don't know. But we are not getting that much conviction as we would want to. So we hope that we'll have more stringent laws to curb this menace. The Commissioner of Justice and Attorney General of Kaduna State, Barista Suleiman Shuaibu, says the state has zero tolerance for SGBV, promising to fight violence against women and children to the barest minimum. Government, we have zero tolerance for gender-based violence and the government is not taking it for granted and it's doing everything possible to ensure that the violence actually is nipped in the board and where it escapes being nipped in the board, actions that are needed to be taken, proactively taken, where there are cases that needed to be prosecuted. We will not waste time, we will ensure that they are prosecuted to the end. Also Commissioner of Ministry of Human Services and Social Development, Rabbi Salisu, commends both state and non-state actors walking around SGBV. The security agencies, judiciary and other stakeholders promise to play a key role in curbing the menace and craft a practical solutions for effective implementation in their societies. A lot of our cases, when you go to the ministry, you will see maybe more than 50-30 people coming, issues of domestic violence through the family issues. Also the physical and the rape assaults ago, there's a case reported to the ministry, a biological grandfather assaulted his granddaughter. So you see, how can you say she is safe with her grandfather? Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.