{"id":818210,"date":"2025-01-08T10:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/fathers-now-abandon-their-wives-and-children-in-gombe-nhrc-raises-alarm\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T10:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:12:39","slug":"fathers-now-abandon-their-wives-and-children-in-gombe-nhrc-raises-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/fathers-now-abandon-their-wives-and-children-in-gombe-nhrc-raises-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Fathers Now Abandon Their Wives And Children In Gombe \u2013 NHRC Raises Alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has reported that it recorded 339 cases of alleged human rights violations in Gombe State in 2024.<\/p>\n

NHRC spokesman, Mr Ali Alola-Alfinti<\/strong>, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria<\/strong> (NAN) in Gombe.<\/p>\n

Alola-Alfinti said that majority of the cases were on parental neglect where fathers abandon their children and wives, citing economic hardship and poverty as reasons for their actions.<\/p>\n

He said the cases were on the increase due to sustained enlightenment campaigns on human rights violations in the state.<\/p>\n

According to him, the commission engages civil society organisations, media, religious and community leaders to educate the people and encourage them to speak out against the menace.<\/p>\n

He stated:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are now getting more victims coming to report. This is good for the campaign against rights violations.<\/p>\n

Silence remains a major challenge in the fight against rights violations as protection of rights will not be possible if cases are not reported.<\/p>\n

The commission recorded 339 cases, and we believe it is as a result of the support from other relevant stakeholders<\/p>\n

The highest in terms of cases is parental neglect with about 50 percent of the complaints, including family abandonment without food, clothing and shelter unlike before when we had fundamental human rights, especially right to life, dignity, inhuman or degrading treatments.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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He said the commission had scaled up outreach to address issues of parental neglect and sensitised husbands to the need to fend for their families.<\/p>\n

\u201cDenying them of their rights is a punishable offence under the law,\u201d he said, adding that rights protection was critical to conflict prevention and peaceful society.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we respect each other\u2019s rights, we will have a peaceful community but when you infringe on another\u2019s right, there will be retaliation and a chaotic society,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has reported that it recorded 339 cases of alleged human rights violations in Gombe State in 2024. NHRC spokesman, Mr Ali Alola-Alfinti, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gombe. Alola-Alfinti said that majority of the cases were on parental neglect where fathers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":818211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29097,27907],"tags":[107614,12834],"class_list":{"0":"post-818210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-abandon","8":"category-fathers","9":"tag-abandon","10":"tag-fathers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}