VAPP Act: We’re Working To Bring Culprits To Book –Ukwa

The programme manager, gender-based violence, Vicar Hope Foundation, Mr Chima Ukwa has said the foundation was working towards bringing violators of Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) law in the state to book.

Ukwa stated this at a two-day training workshop organised by the Vision Spring Initiative (VSI), the foundation and the Abia State government for action development in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.

He said the foundation had trained over 300 persons as desk officers of Gender-based Violence (GBV) and VAPP Act at the various local government areas in the state.

He commended the VSI and the foundation, which is a pet project of the wife of the state governor, Mrs Njechi Ikpeazu and the government for the intervention, saying the workshop was very timely.

Similarly, the project director of the VSI, Mrs Ngozi Nwosu charged the participants to contribute towards reduction of discrimination and human rights abuses against women and girls.

She said the workshop would help to equip various government agencies in the state with actionable plan to guide them in the implementation of VAPP which will lead to reduction in human rights violations in the state.

The director, who lauded the foundation and the founder for their support which led to the passage of the VAPP Act in 2019, added that the law serves as template for prohibition of violence against person