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Missing Data, Missing Justice

This report produced using a multi-prong approach has two parts – a research and five commissioned investigative stories on SGBV, which tracked the justice status of some select cases reported in the media. Key findings indicate that: the media increasingly reported issues of access and abuse against women in 2018 and 2019, but this dropped in 2020; 86 out of the 91 cases on abuse were reported to the police; one, to National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP); one, to National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA); two were not reported to any law enforcement agencies, while media reports were silent on one of the cases. So, we could not ascertain whether it was reported to any law enforcement agency. Of the 88 cases that made it to law enforcement agencies, 56 of them were charged to court, 15 were not charged to court; the police could not trace whether 18 of them made it to court due to the absence of a comprehensive database; cases reported in the media were not followed up; and did not contain the necessary data from NGO, police and the courts due to poor database management. Thus, we conclude that over a third (36.4%) of these cases did not progress beyond the police, which is partly responsible for missing justice