The Kano state office of the National Human Rights Commission has received over 266 cases on family matters from January to march 2022.
The commission’s state coordinator, Shehu Abdullahi made the disclosure while speaking with newsmen in Kano on Tuesday.
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According to him, the commission received a total of 52 complaints in January, 153 in February and 85 in March.
The coordinator pointed out that domestic violence, abandonment of family responsibility, rights of children and gender based violence constituted a high percentage of the cases recorded.
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Abdullahi attributed the rise in cases of family matters to economic challenges, where men intentionally or unintentionally neglect family responsibility.
“Generally you can understand that family matters has taken a large number of complaints we received, this is not showing well of how our family system is being governed”
Abdullahi stressed the need for the government to review policies that will address economic challenges to move the nation forward.
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He maintained that philanthropists and wealthy individuals have a vital role to play in assisting the less privileged in the society through empowerment and other programmes aimed at alleviating poverty.
“Empowerment programmes, monetary policies and other aspects of national development policies should be adopted in order to reduce the issue of economic crisis facing the nation,” he said.
