{"id":141093,"date":"2026-05-15T05:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/government-launches-crackdown-on-rising-sgbv-child-abduction-cases-in-central\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:02:52","slug":"government-launches-crackdown-on-rising-sgbv-child-abduction-cases-in-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/government-launches-crackdown-on-rising-sgbv-child-abduction-cases-in-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Government launches crackdown on rising SGBV, child abduction cases in Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Government has announced a raft of measures aimed at tackling the rising cases of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), child abduction and murder in the Central Region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a high level security Central Region Security and Child Protection meeting in Nyeri County, Cabinet Secretary for Gender, Culture, the Arts and Heritage Hanna Wendot Cheptumo directed that a 90-day Rapid Results Initiative (RRI) be immediately undertaken to intensify interventions against the rising cases of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in the Central Region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in Nyeri County to assess ongoing child protection and security iinterventions and engage security and child protection teams on the ground,\u201d CS said.<\/p>\n<p>The CS further ordered that all relevant Government agencies work towards declaring the Central Region SGBV-free within the next 11 months through sustained prevention, enforcement, protection and community response measures.<\/p>\n<p>To strengthen coordination and response against SGBV and crimes against children, the CS established a multi-agency team at the regional level, to be cascaded to county and sub-county levels, bringing together security agencies, Children Services, local administration and relevant stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/government-launches-crackdown-on-rising-sgbv-child-abduction-cases-in-central\/\">Government launches crackdown on rising SGBV, child abduction cases in Central<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has announced a raft of measures aimed at tackling the rising cases of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), child abduction and murder in the Central Region. Speaking during a high level security Central Region Security and Child Protection meeting in Nyeri County, Cabinet Secretary for Gender, Culture, the Arts and Heritage Hanna Wendot Cheptumo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}