The disclosure was made by the State Coordinator, Yahcit Dala while speaking with Tribune Online in Bauchi on Tuesday titled: ‘Complaint statistics in 2023’.
Yahcit Dala spoke through the Principal Programme Analyst, Felix Ortese who explained that all women and children cases are SGBV cases and were treated as such.
While giving the breakdown of the complaints, She said that out of the 117,972 complaints received, 586 bordered on women’s and children’s rights, 5,152 bordered on civil and political rights while the total 112,234 were on economic, social and cultural rights.
The State Coordinator also said that during the period, the major challenge of the commission’s operation in Bauchi was the difficulty in accessing some very remote areas with difficult terrains.
She added that limited funds also affected operations sometimes, however, the commission did not allow these challenges to hinder its activities.
Yahcit Dala then stated that the commission’s breakthroughs were in the resolution of complaints involving a community wherein over 205 members of the community regained their rights to their immovable properties.
According to her, the intervention of the commission forestalled a breakdown of law of order in the community as well as the resolution of several complaints.
The State Coordinator added that some very serious violations were investigated, and though not yet concluded, there are significant successes as the victims are already benefitting from some of the remedies of those interventions.
She stressed that instituting a judicial process that resulted in the release of some persons, whose rights to fair hearing were denied from the custodial centre was done during the period under review.