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In Lagos women now beat their husbands to submission, 340 cases reported
The Lagos State Government has reported 340 cases of women beating their husbands to submission in the state in the last one year.
Executive Secretary, Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, disclosed this recently.
She said incidence of reporting of domestic violence from male increased during the last one year.
Vivour-Adeniyi disclosed that 340 male reported incidences of domestic violence perpetrated against them by their wives between September 2022 and July 2023.
She said this s more than twice the number reported between September 2021 and July 2022, which stood at 140 cases.
“This is an indication that the culture of silence amongst the male gender concerning issues of Sexual and Gender Based Violence is also gradually being broken,” she stated.
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