A video uploaded on social media on Holy Saturday proved beyond doubt stories of young women often visibly harassed in traumatizing ways in the capital city of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby.
The video narrated by a man who took the stand with his colleagues to save the victim.
In the video, the lady is escorted out by a traffic police officer.
But despite the presence of the lone policeman, men kept inappropriately grabbing her.
Coming out of the crowd, the horror shown on her face.
Clearly an unspeakable and horrifying experience.
She was escorted by the police officer into a waiting bus that rescued her and took her home.
The Governor of the National Capital District (NCD) has condemned this “shameful act of violence.”
Governor Powes Parkop said it is a totally unacceptable behavior and total disrespect for women and girls of our country.
“We all, especially men and boys of this country must hang our head in shame.
“Women and girls of our country have right of freedom of movement in their country free of violence and fear.
“As Governor of our Capital City I am disgusted and ashamed of such conduct in our city.
He said this continued level of GBV also demands that we roll out the GBV Strategies as soon as possible.
“Enough of talking.
“The strategy has been adopted in 2016 and launched in 2017,” he said.
Parkop said NCDC has adopted a three-pronged strategy to combat GBV and needs to upgrade it’s roll out, especially with the roll out into the public.
This year NCDC has also allocated funds to increase the size of the Reserve Police so they can help regular police to curb these activities in public places especially shopping malls, markets and bus stops.
“We will start recruiting and training new Reserve Police once we appoint a new officer to command the reserve police.
“We had hoped to employ a former Deputy Police Commissioner but this has not worked out so we working on a new engagement which I hope will be secured soon,” Parkop said.
But while Provincial Governments and the National Government “procrastinate”, as described by Parkop, gender-based violence continue to escalate.
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