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Four police officers were arrested among eleven men in eleven cases of gender-based violence over the weekend, with gender activists urging more women to come forward.
Edwin Kanguatjivi, Deputy Commissioner of Police Yesterday, a police officer was arrested and charged with badault after denigrating his wife at the Indaba Club in Koës, Karas Region, on Friday.
He also said that the same day, around 07:30 to Romano Windhoek. Catholic Hospital, a police inspector was arrested and charged with badault by threatening to kill his wife and expose him on social media.
On Saturday, yet another policeman at the Katutura Heavenly District in Windhoek was arrested and charged with badault. cause serious bodily harm. The officer allegedly badaulted his girlfriend and daughter and threatened to kill them.
Another police officer was arrested on Saturday and appeared yesterday in Mariental District Court for badaulting his pregnant girlfriend at the Mariental Hospital Nurses Home. According to Samuel Nampa, Samuel Jantze was reportedly deprived of his bail on his first charge of aggravated badault
Jantze allegedly badaulted Eva Kisting, who was eight months pregnant, with her fists around 8 pm at the nurses'. House. He is scheduled to appear in court today to apply for bail.
Kanguatjivi said the increase in the number of reported GBV cases could have been triggered by last week's incident in which a police officer, Samuel Shali Nghihepa (28), murdered. his girlfriend, Alina Kakehongo (28), in Windhoek before shooting herself.
"It seems that there is an awareness of reporting cases of GBV to the police, an indication that no one is above the law."
Kanguatjivi said that , apart from the four cases involving police officers, seven more cases were reported, of which six were arrested throughout the country
.The women, who reported her husband abusing police over the weekend, told the Namibian yesterday that she was not in the right state of mind to comment.
The latest GBV police reports anticipate a march planned tomorrow in Windhoek by various NGOs you Alna Dall, the organizer of the planned march, said yesterday that Namibia will join women and gender nonconformists (GNC) from South Africa, Lesotho and Botswana to protest GBV. and for safe spaces for women and key populations who are vulnerable to gender-based violence te
The group will present a petition to the Ministry of Gender and Police Station of Katutura, as well as to the High Court.
Dall said that in the past four years, the movement has been talking to the police and the gender department about the psychosocial health of police officers, especially those who are armed.
"We want police officers who are constantly confronted or traumatized to receive counseling, gender sensitivity training and how to deal with GBV cases.
"If the government really wants to reduce GBV, it has to put resources in. Women should have safe spaces to feel if they feel threatened." Program Director at Women's Leadership Center, Liz Frank said yesterday that police should screen recruits and do background checks on any violent history leader. We live in a patriarchal society based on gender inequality, in which men exercise power over women and children and where public institutions are predominantly male-led. Men enjoy the privilege and boys grow up waiting to lead, govern and decide, and girls learn to obey and follow, "said Frank, who said that this state of mind among men must change for GBV to be successfully eliminated. FBIsLoaded = false;
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