Profile of Kebe Ikpi; youngster and ladies’s advocate

Kebe Ikpi is a devoted and passionate advocate of youngsters and ladies’s rights. His work has seen a number of abusers of youngsters find yourself in jail after trial in Court docket.

Kebe has contributed immensely to the assessment and validation of insurance policies and passage of legal guidelines that search to guard the rights of girls and kids in Cross River State.

Amongst his contribution are;

1. Overview and validation of the Cross River State Little one Safety Case Administration Framework and the Customary Working Process. (SOP).

2. Member of the technical committee that reviewed the Cross River State Little one Proper Regulation 2009. The legislation is now earlier than the State Home of Meeting for modification.

3. Member of the technical committee that reviewed the Violence In opposition to Individuals Prohibition (VAPP) and Incapacity Rights Payments (2021). Each payments have been signed into legislation by Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State on the thirty first of December, 2021.

He has continued to contribute to the protection of girls and kids by guaranteeing that perpetrators of all types of Gender-Based mostly Violence face the legislation. He designed the information assortment instruments used for the enumeration of Road kids in Calabar, analysis on Gender-Based mostly Violence Amongst Ladies with Incapacity in Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State.

Within the yr 2020, Kebe led a staff of volunteers to feed kids in road conditions in Calabar in the course of the lockdown in Cross River State. These kids’s survival relied on the meals they bought thereby stopping them from getting concerned in stealing to outlive the lockdown.

Kebe has been to exhausting to succeed in communities to advocate for the abolition of cash marriage, a type of youngster marriage the place feminine kids are married out at age 3, 4, and even earlier than they’re born. A documentary was produced to attract the eye of the world to the barbaric act.

Kebe is a UNICEF skilled Case Administration Knowledgeable and has contributed to the coaching of different Caseworkers in Cross River State.

Kebe likes to journey, learn, and play chess.