From Yakubu Busari ,Jos
The Minister for Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen has condemned the problem of girl child education and infant mortality in the country.
Mrs Tallen in an interactive session with the correspondence Chapel on Sunday at Atiku Abubakar close Rayfield, Jos, lauded her ministry’s collaboration in tackling the plight of women gender in Nigeria.
The Minister explained that the advocacy her’s and other ministries have undertaken on infant mortality, empowerment of women, and political participation of women is to reduce poverty and discourage of early married of the girl child in the country, noting that “with these things women display as other African countries have done development will progress and we will be proud that we had a successful mission for education is power.
She said, ” communication is key and power, we have embarked on advocacy on the girl child education, we are still within the 16 days activism against gender based violence and rape”.
According to her, “the programme kicked- off on November 25, 2019 and it will be ending next tomorrow on December 2019, even so it will not end at that, the UN has give 16 days for active participation and advocacy so that the world will know that we are say,” No to Rape, Domestic Violence, and any form of violence against women and children in Nigeria “.
Mrs Pauline Taller maintained that “this will continue until we have a health and peaceful society and that’s why since on the 25th, we have been on Orange because orange is the colour that makes us stand to say NO and we are appealing to all of you Publishers, Journalists to help us drum this message so that we can have a health, stable and peaceful society were the dignity of womanhood and that of her children are protected”.
She described that all men are born of a woman, and we all either have Mothers, wife’s, Sisters or Daughters and if we respect the woman.
Tallen stressed that, ” we are building a healthy society because a woman or the girl child is tomorrow’s mother and if she is well educated, she will ensure her children are educated, the family is well catered for health wise, so educating the girl child has a multiplier effect likewise empowering the girl child”.
