Omowumi Ogunrotimi

Omowumi Ogunrotimi

Omowumi Ogunrotimi is a Nigerian multidisciplinary legal practitioner, founder and executive director of Gender Mobile Initiative. She has worked in over 50 rural communities advocating for safe spaces for vulnerable populations, particularly girls and women.

Quotes

• The transactional sex on the campuses of institutions of higher learning in Nigeria is first and foremost a reflection of anomie in our society; it also reflects the abysmal decay of standards in our educational system.
  • Sexual harassment: NGO, Ford Foundation partner to develop report app (12 October 2019)

• There must be policy to protect students in universities from being sexually harassed while making the very act itself unattractive through a system of checks and balances and sanctions that respects neither person nor status.
  • Policy making to protect students

• Sexual harassment has become a pandemic that shouldn’t be addressed on the margin; we need to beam the light and address it holistically.
  • Speaking at a national dialogue on sexual harassment in Nigerian tertiary institutions (11 December 2019)

• Students should be sensitised properly and adequately, as regards their rights. Tertiary institutions should also provide safe, conducive and private channels reporting issues of sexual harassment, while ensuring the anonymity of victims in other to protect their identities and effectively prevent any case of possible backlash, intimidation or witch-hunting from such reported aggressors/sexual offenders.
  • The need for students sensitization (17 December 2019)

• Educational certification alone should not be the prerequisite for employing lecturers. Background checks should be conducted on prospective lecturers to ensure that they are of sound mind and good character.
  • Demand for Background Checks On Lecturers

• From the foregoing, it has become a sad realisation that sexual harassment has been allowed to fester in our tertiary institutions for too long. All stakeholders must stand up to their responsibilities and all hands must be on deck to ensure that our campuses are safe havens.
  • Fight against sexual harassment

• This organisation is leveraging on the use of technology to bring about a change in the lifestyles of our people , because technology is mobile.
  • Speaking during the donation of motorized washing machines in Ekiti (20 May 2020)

• A lot of perpetrators of Gender-Based violence do not know what the law says if they are caught, therefore Government need to work with community base organizations to engage stakeholders in the community and lead campaigns of issues of GBV, this will also help survivors of GBV in remote areas to know who to call and when to seek for help.
  • Ways to stop increase in Gender-Based Violence (2 June 2020)