Residents of the Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area (LCDA) held their Community Development Committee meeting on Wednesday at the Community's Multi-purpose Town Hall, Alhaja Bus Stop, Alimoso, Lagos.
The meeting focused on pressing issues of security, crime, education and environmental safety. Salient issues in the minutes of the last meeting were also finalised after brief deliberations.
The issue of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) was the first to be addressed, as the council received the Executive Director of the Women's Right and Health Project (WRAHP) and founder of IRETI Resource Centre, Bose Iro Nsi, who raised concerns about the frequent rape of young girls in Alimosho Local Government Area.
She raised the issue of a schoolgirl, Favour Okechukwu, who was gang-raped to death on the 30th of September in Ejigbo. Another 13-year-old girl was also raped at Egan in Igando.