….promises to support university towards addressing GBV
The Nigerian winner of the prestigious Global Citizen Award and Executive Lead of Gender Mobile Initiative, Omowumi Ogunrotimi has promised to support her alma mater, the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti towards coming up with policies and mechanism that will assist in preventing and addressing the issue of Gender Based Violence.
Ogunrotimi made the promise during a visit to the Vice Chancellor of the university where she officially presented the Global Citizen Prize Award to him.
She explained that her organization had over ten years champion the course of ending GBV, particularly sexual harassment in tertiary institutions and had worked with over two hundred institutions.
According to her, Gender Mobile Initiative will assist EKSU in terms of policy framework, grants, and necessary technological facilities that would assist in effective tracking of GBV cases and addressing them headlong.
She added that the organization would also raise hundred students that would champion the course of GBV advocacies within the campus community.
Ogunrotimi had earlier visited the Director, Directorate of Advancement and Linkage Programmes, Professor Abiodun Johnson Olatunji who congratulated her for the various success recorded in her career.
Receiving the award winner, Vice Chancellor of the Ekiti State University, Professor Joseph Ayodele described Ogunrotimi as a worthy ambassador of the university and thanked her for the proposed partnership towards preventing GBV.
Professor Ayodele confirmed that the University was ready to partner her organization towards addressing the issue of GBV in the university.
He noted that the university has Zero tolerance for sexual harassment and would do everything posible to sustain such legacy.
