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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has informed Nigerians that Peter Akpanke is no longer its staff.
EFCC Head of Media, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement said Akpanke has no authority to represent or carry out any business in the name of the commission.
Uwujaren noted that the disclaimer became necessary following reports that Akpanke, who was dismissed from the agency, had been parading himself as a bona fide operative.
The spokesman said the former employee was “using false identity to harass and extort unsuspecting members of the public especially in Akwa Ibom and Cross River States”.
Cox: It’s time to band together and play our part in protecting our Women and Girls
Port of Spain… Minister of Social Development and Family Services, Senator the Honourable Donna Cox has called on all sectors of society to band together in protecting our nation’s women and girls from gender-based violence and abuse. This call to action was made by the Minister during her contributions to a motion raised by Independent Senator, Paul Richards to ‘Effectively Address the Rising Incidence of Violence Against Women and Girls.’
According to the Minister, “This motion is a call to action, to effectively address the rising incidence of violence against women and girls. As a society we can always do more; we can always do better”. The Minister launched her contributions stating “One case of violence against a woman is too many. We must never sit down and comfort ourselves with numbers. We must assert that violence against any woman is violence against all of society.
Independent Senator Paul Richards. -
After Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith took Senator Paul Richards to task for comments on the under-reporting of gender-based violence, Richards has said the commissioner must not have been listening to him properly.
Richards said contrary to the commissioner’s assertions, he at no time identified the police in their current state as complicit in the phenomenon of not following up on reports of gender-based violence. In fact, he praised the police for their new approach.
At the weekly press briefing at the police administration building in Port of Spain on Wednesday, Griffith criticised Richards for saying “reports of gender-based violence have garnered nationwide focus and given rise to several accounts of similar experiences by women whose cases have not been followed up and solved by police.”
CPU head: Believe children when they say they’re sexually abused
Acting Supt Claire Guy-Alleyne. -
ACTING Supt Claire Guy-Alleyne, head of the police s Child Protection Unit (CPU) and Gender-Based Violence Unit (GBVU), on Sunday said children s complaints about being sexually abused must never be dismissed by their parents or guardians.
Guy-Alleyne said this at a virtual seminar on child abuse hosted by the TT Medical Association and the Children s Authority. A child who is abused may only reach out for help once.
Against this background, Guy-Alleyne said the CPU advises all adults that when a child comes home and says, ‘Listen, I am being abused,’ whether it is physical.sexual.the first step..is to believe that child.
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