Tina Amanda
The residents of Rivers state have been urged to call a survival support centre toll free lines to report any case of violence against women on or before the 2019 election.
Senior Programme Manager, Gender and Development Action GADA, Iyingi Irimagha, stated this during a peace walk organised by GADA with support from National Democratic Institute to encourage women to come out en mass and vote in the forthcoming February and March elections in the state.
According to her, the free toll line was made available in order to ensure that women would not be intimidated or harassed in the process of exercising their voting rights in polling units and wards across the 23 local government areas of Rivers state.
“We are hoping that with this peace walk, women will be able to vote. The most important thing is sharing the hotline because there may be some violence issues women might likely face while trying to vote and don’t know whom to call.
“With support from the National Democratic Institute, we were able to have a toll free line which is 080-011-00000, this line is free for women to call.
“The support centre is supposed to manage cases that women face during this election. The support centre is at the Rivers state ministry of women affairs.
“If there is an issue you can call the toll-free number or women can walk into the ministry and lodge in their complaints and they will be attended to‘’
Our correspondent Tina Stephen reports that the peace walk took off from the ministry of women affairs, through Marine base, PHALGA, mile one market Diobu, D/Line and terminated at Aba road.
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