Women are partners in progress for a better society ----Uzodimma
(Nigeria) Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has said that the
society will be incomplete if women are not fully incorporated as partners in
progress in all facets of human endeavour.
The Governor also feels that any society that fails to see
the potentials in women and accord them their right of place does so at its own
peril.
Governor Uzodimma’s remark
is sequel to this year’s International Women’s Day ceremony to be marked
globally on March 8, 2021.
The theme of this year’s event is “Women in Leadership:
Achieving an Equal Future in a Covid-19 World.”
According to Governor Uzodimma, women have demonstrated
capacity in all spheres of human endeavour, including where men could not,
hence their diverse abilities should complement that of the menfolk in making
the society a better place for all to live in a post Covid-19 era.
Governor Uzodimma whose government has demonstrated high
level of gender equality and sensitivity with more than 35 female appointees in
his administration as either commissioners, Special Advisers, Senior Special
Assistants, Directors General, among others, believes so much that getting the
womenfolk occupy responsible political and other offices will go a long way in
helping to mould our children into becoming responsible members of the society.
Not only does the governor believe in the aphorism, “train a
women, train a society,” he also
believes we should even take the more seriously the saying, “what a man can do,
a woman can do, even better, ” as the
world confronts the post Covid-19 challenges.
Governor Uzodimma who also has zero tolerance for
gender-based violence because it has a way of limiting the potentials of women,
urged our mothers and the girl child to see themselves as the mirror through
which a better society could be gleaned, by remaining focused on whatever
political, economic, socio-cultural and religious situations they may find
themselves.
Governor Uzodimma however congratulated the women for the choice of this year’s topic, “Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in a Covid-19 World ” noting that none could have been better suited today that the whole world is grappling with the humongous negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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