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Hope for Second Chance Foundation (HOSEC), an NGO, has said poor emphasis on protection of boys from sexual and related abuses in the society has increased its prevalence and exposed more children to Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV).
Its founder, Mrs Ibukunoluwa Otesile, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that parents and organisations placed more emphasis on protecting the girl-child from all forms of abuse, neglecting the male child.
Otesile, who threw more light on the group’s advocacy to ending SGBV and her newly released books ‘The Game’ and ‘The Cost of Silence’-explained that boys were as vulnerable as girls too, often times sexually molested without confiding in appropriate persons.
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Street children menace scary, they’ll stone us someday ― Makinde’s security adviser Street children menace scary, they’ll stone us someday ― Makinde’s security adviser
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Special Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Security, Mr Fatai Owoseni, has described the menace of street children, hoodlums in the country as scary and devastating, warning that should the trend continue, those children on the streets will someday stone parents and those in authority that have neglected them.
Attributing the situation to the preaching of wrong values, parental neglect, erosion of values of togetherness and concern for the other, Owoseni said the rebirth and return to good values must begin from individual homes.