FG should secure girl-child in Nigeria –-Akin-Jimoh

The Executive Secretary of the Youth Empowerment Foundation (YEF), Mrs Iwalola Akin-Jimoh, has lamented that the recent abduction of 110 girls of the Dapchi College, Yobe State, was a negative blow to the 1995 Beijing Conference objective on fair representation of women in any society.

Speaking with New Telegraph in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, Akin-Jimoh stressed that the government should secure girls in the country, saying that it’s unfortunate that future women leaders of the country were being held hostage by the Boko Haram insurgents.

“Rampant abduction of girls in large numbers is an anathema to the well-being and productive future of our women folk. It is high time this ugly trend was curtailed by the government and all the stakeholders lest Nigeria continue to suffer human degradation among the comity of nation’s in the world”, Jimoh stressed.

New Telegraph, March 9, 2018

 

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