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Some selected officers from the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) from the northern sector, have attended a trainer of trainers’ workshop on gender-based violence in Kumasi.
The programme, the second in a series, followed the one hosted in Accra for the officers in the south was initiated by management of the Service to build capacity of officers in gender-based violence as well as sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment within the Service and its external environment.
The programme was to introduce the officers to a Gender Based Violence Manual and to solicit their views on how to curb the incidence of sexual harassment within the Service, which mandate and activities is dominated by daily interaction with people including migrants and immigrants.
Mr Fred Amankwaa, Ashanti Regional Commander of GIS, speaking at the ceremony, urged the officers not to intimidate and sexually abuse those within the service and the public with their uniform.
Superintendent Median Kyeremaa, the GIS officer in charge of the Project stressed the importance of the manual in helping to address the challenges of sexual abuse and harassment in the service even though not much has been recorded.
Dr Festus Obeng, a Consultant of the Project, asked the officers to take the contents of the manual seriously as it will help them to address the issue of gender-based violence holistically.
