Be bold, report GBV: Kumba tells male victims

The Speaker of the Revitalised Transitional National Legislative Assembly (RTNLA), Jemma Nunu Kumba has urged men subjected to gender-based violence to come out so that they can be helped.

Kumba called on men who are GBV victims to seek justice rather than suffer in silence due to fear of being a laughing stock.

“Gender applies to men and women. So, it is true that there are men [who suffer but] culturally they [do not report being beaten by their wives]. They suffer silently, ” Ms. Kumba said, “There are some women who have seriously harassed men. [Men], do not keep quiet, come out.”

However, Mrs. Kumba said that “very few women who are the aggressors, but the majority of perpetrators of gender-based violence are men.’’

“Let us move together, let us walk together, and let us take care of each other, and protect one another.”

Kumba was speaking during a high-level government and international agencies’ visit to the Specialised Gender-Based and Juvenile Court on Tuesday to assess the court’s situation since its establishment in December 2020. 

All the tried GBV cases at the court as well as the perpetrators of more than 1,000 reported GBV cases this year were all men. Women were yet to be publicly accused of violating the rights of men.