By Henry Ibya, Makurdi
The vulnerable group, particularly widows and female sex workers, FSWs, in Benue State who suffer violence and other human right abuses as well as various forms of inequality have been assured of adequate protection as part of ministry of justice responsibility to protect the rights of all citizens.
Speaking when he received a delegation from Concerned Women International Development Initiative, CWIDI, on behalf of the Benue State Commissioner for Justice and Public Order in Makurdi, Assistant Director in the Directorate of Citizens’ Right, Sunday Sabe, described as inappropriate where certain category of people such as widows and female sex workers were discriminated or harmful cultural practices melted to them on the basis of their nature of business or status in the society.
He further argued that sometimes some of those women are pushed to the wall in doing what they have chosen, advocating for friendly policies of government to rehabilitate such people as well as give them adequate protection, advising that members of the public should understand that widows, female sex workers, FSWs and other vulnerable category of people are human beings like other living creatures and deserve fair treatment.
According to the Assistant Director in the Ministry of Justice, no matter what these category of persons are doing, they deserves the right, fundamental human rights, in alienable right that every human being has by virtue of being humans, which is granted by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, section-33,34 and 35 which gives every citizen including widows, female sex workers and the most vulnerable, access to right to life, dignity and liberty of human person as well as fair hearing.