The wife of Enugu State Governor, Mrs. Monica Ugochi Ugwuanyi, has urged Nigerian women in authority to rise, champion and protect the rights and privileges of women in the country.
Mrs. Ugwuanyi, who stated that “it is obvious that women rights need to be brought to par with that of men to ensure equality and justice”, stressed that it is only strong feminist movements that can create thriving democracy and a catalyst of positive change.
Speaking during an event to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day in Enugu State, the governor’s wife disclosed that the occasion offered women the veritable platform to chart and plan for their future and “how to be relevant and achieve an equal future in this COVID-19 world”.
Noting that women’s participation in politics has increased in recent years, Mrs. Ugwuanyi said that it is “yet not sufficient to fulfill the objectives we set for ourselves, not even the ambition of Beijing Declaration of 1995”.
Highlighting that the subject of this year’s International Women’s Day is “Women in management: Achieving an identical future in a COVID-19 World”, the Enugu First Lady pointed out that most of the healthcare workers pioneering the treatment of COVID-19 in various hospitals throughout the world are ladies.
“This puts them at a excessive hazard, but they're the minority in terms of selection making”, she said.
Pushing similarly on feminism and lively involvement of extra girls in management, the Enugu governor’s spouse stated: “You need to put together and increase your self to be worthy of being a pacesetter. Read, learn new skills, go for seminars, attempt for the first-rate and depart no stone unturned. Remember you can not provide what you do not have.
“We have had quite a few ladies in management positions. Currently we have the primary lady Vice President of the USA of America (USA), Mrs. Kamala Harris, and our very own Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the primary woman Director General (D.G.) of the World Trade Organization.
“Let us come again home; the first female Deputy Governor of Enugu State Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo, and first girl Chief Judge of Enugu State, Hon. Justice Priscilla Ngozi Emehelu.
“As Governors wives, we've started out in our diverse states to ensure that we location earlier than our husbands, things that count number for women. Now we've an affiliation known as Nigeria Governors Wives Against Gender Based Violence (NGWA- GBV).
“We made sure that diverse states in Nigeria domesticated the national legal guidelines concerning the rights of ladies and kids.
“In Enugu State, the Child Rights Act became signed into law in 2016 and the Violence Against Persons Act (VAP Act ) became signed into law in 2019. We have also domesticated social safety coverage. This policy allows empower girls and ladies to are searching for justice inside the face of violation and exploitation.
“Women have to realize that there are unique rights to be loved solely by way of ladies and there are trendy rights ladies revel in with both men.
“The 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria guarantees the economic rights of girls, in which it stated that every one residents have same opportunity to stable suitable employment and there shall be same pay at work with out discrimination.
“Our constitution also granted us inheritance rights; women are mostly denied inheritance due to some cultural practices. Other rights are right to personal dignity, this proper is an indispensable part of ladies’s proper in Nigeria. Some conducts that violate those rights are rape, sexual attack and molestation, women and kids trafficking, female genital mutilation etc; and the right to education, environments, healthy leaving, social and cultural rights.
“It is crystal clean that the above rights aren't being loved by using women in our us of a. The manner we are able to regain these badly compromised and marginalized rights is to support girls in politics to make sure that these legal guidelines are implemented through setting strict measures to its implementation.
“A wonderful chief ought to also clone herself in many younger girls by empowering them (financially or in any other case).
“It is obvious that girls rights want to be introduced to par with that of guys to make certain equality and justice. We urge girls already in electricity, first rate girls agencies, woman judges, girl law makers and so on. To upward push, champion and guard rights of ladies and privileges in Nigeria.
“It is most effective those robust feminist actions which can create thriving democracy and a catalyst of nice change”.
He ended her marketing campaign for women on the occasion with Sheryl Sandberg’s quote: "We want ladies at all degrees, which include the pinnacle to trade the dynamic, reshape the communique, to make certain, women's voices are heard and heeded, not ignored and unnoticed."
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