DESIRE LORDSON
Stakeholders from the Niger Delta Region of the Country have advocated gender equity in governance as one of the ways to achieve sustainable development.
This was the crux of the close out conference on ‘Improving Electoral Intergrity and Accountability Project’, with the theme; Sustaining Gender Equity, Empowerment and Social Inclusion in Communities.
A Student in Port Harcourt, a native of Kebera in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, Madam Grace Windey and the Traditional Women leader from Akwa Ibom State, Chief Regina Fabian, said the project had impacted positively by making vulnerable and community women and girls to become bold.
Rivers State Director, National Orientation Agency, Dr. Young Ayotamuno in an interview, craved the indulgence of the Civil Society Organ in sensitising women and other vulnerable to cast their votes properly in the soon coming local Government Area elections in Rivers State.
While commending the support of the Federal Minitry of Women Affairs and other allies in the fight for social inclusion in governance, a Program Officer of the project for Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative, WRAPA, Zainab Abdulrasheed, stressed that the message of gender equality and inclusion should begin in families.
Director, Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, Dr. Emem Okon stressed the importance of proper representation in addressing the needs of people.
The forum also had paper presentations from three facilitators in the Academic and Media on Gender equality and inclusion.
Awards were presented to deserving partners in the implementation of the project, including the Permanent Secretary in the Rivers State Ministry of Women Affairs, Mrs. Uche Uriri and a News Reporter in the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, South South Zone, Mrs. Desire Lordson.
