89 Men Report Cases Of Domestic Violence Against Wives In Less Than Two Years – LASG

• … a total of 43 men reported battering by their wives, making it a total of 89 in less than two years…

The Lagos State Government has said 89 men reported that they were battered by their wives in cases of domestic violence between 2020 and Q1 of 2021.

The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA), Cecilia Bolaji Dada, disclosed this on Tuesday at a press conference to mark Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s second year in office, held in Ikeja, Lagos.

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According to the commissioner, in 2020, a total of 46 men reported at the ministry that their wives violated them, adding that in the first quarter of 2021, a total of 43 men reported battering by their wives, making it a total of 89 in less than two years.

She said the figure captured only cases reported to WAPA and that some cases had been reported directly to the Ministry of Justice and police station which the ministry might not be aware of.

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Dada, however, disclosed that a total of 664 women were battered by their husbands in Lagos in the past year, according to cases reported at WAPA.