The Deputy Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu has advocated for the safety of the lady youngster throughout Nigeria.
He made the decision whereas receiving leaders of the Students Vanguard for Girl Child Education in Nigeria, in his workplace.
He stated that it was a disservice to any nation to not have its younger ones educated irrespective of gender.
“It is even more difficult to go educate one gender and Levi the other one uneducated. It is essentially through it that we can improve social economic outcomes in our country. However, in Nigeria, gender inequality in education remains a major concern and the challenges are stalk,” Kalu stated.
He stated that many individuals aren’t conscious of what many indigent women undergo and commented on the group for taking over that problem to talk for the lady youngster.
He nevertheless identified that the problem of out-of-school women is just not solely in northern Nigeria, he additionally condemned the renewed abduction of faculty women, Saying that the majority women are actually afraid to go to highschool for worry of being kidnapped.
“It’s not only happening in the north but in the south and other parts of the country. But it ought not to be so. We need to take steps towards reducing the percentage. To have sixty per cent of all out-of-school children out of the fourteen million out-of-school children being girls is a lot of numbers that calls for great concern,” he stated.
He stated that very quickly the proportion goes to scale back as the federal government was making efforts in the direction of lowering the quantity.
He additionally famous that the National Assembly would be a part of its voice to the group’s voice to make it louder.
Adding that the National Assembly would use its devices to handle the problem as “girls are the mothers of tomorrow.”
Earlier, the President of the Female Students Vanguard for Girl Child Education in Nigeria, Khadija Sulaiman Godado, instructed the Deputy that the challenges going through the lady youngster in Nigeria have been quite a few.
She stated that the first responsibility of the group was the training of the lady youngster.
Ms Gidado identified that in Nigeria, training was seen as a privilege to the lady youngster as the ability of training is tilted to males.
“It is now made to be believed that education is a privilege to women because not all of them have access to it. Some people in Nigeria see education as a commodity. Forty percent of girls ages 9-12 in northern Nigeria for a start have never been to school. One in three women and girls experience physical and sexual violence in their lifetime. Over nine point five Nigerian girls are not in school. Worldwide, almost seven hundred and fifty million women and girls alive today were married before their eighteenth birthday. One in two women killed worldwide was killed by their partners or hubby in 2027. 71% of all human trafficking worldwide are women and girls. Violence against women is a serious cause of death and incapacity among women of reproductive age as cancer,” Ms Gidado stated.
She additionally stated that the sanitary situations of younger women have to be supported as most women can’t afford to purchase sanitary merchandise.
“Among our upcoming projects, one to focus on at the moment is ” Pad up the lady youngster,” she stated.
She used the chance to brighten the Deputy Speaker with the ” Icon of exemplary Leadership of the Female Students Vanguard and described him as ” A Matchless Icon”
The President additionally appealed for help to satisfy their wants and execute their initiatives.
