Aregbesola’s wife charges women in govt

Posted by admin Osun, State News, Women Politics Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Wife of Osun State Governor, Mrs. Sherifat Aregbesola has called on women holding political power to use their position to better the lot of women and children and prove to men that women are capable of performing enviably in positions of authority.

Aregbesola gave the charge at the opening of two days induction course on Protocol Practices and Related Matters organized for the wives of elected/appointed political office holders in the State.
She charged women to use the opportunity at their disposal to seek ways of ensuring that issues of gender equality and economic transformation of the women were adequately attended to.

According to her, issues such as the reduction of maternal mortality rates, Breast, and Cervical Cancers, Parenting, Rape, HIV/AIDS, Sex, Abuse, Family Planning, and many more should take priority on the participants’ agenda.
Aregbesola said:“Our energies and resources should be channeled towards providing information and organizing educative programmes on sexual and reproductive health, voluntary counseling and testing, prevention of mother-to-child transmission diseases, male and female condom availability and use, provision of anti-retroviral therapy, and generally elevating the status of women in our state, and beyond”,
She urged participants to use their position to convey the pathetic situations of girls, children and women to their spouses, with a view to giving them a better life.

The governor’s wife assured that women in public office would not betray the trust reposed in them, charging them put in their best in serving the state.
In her address, the state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Adetoun Adegboyega noted that for any society to function maximally, every member of the society must contribute to its socio-economic development.

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