PLATEAU: BREAKING: WIVES OF LEGISLATORS, COMMISSIONERS, AND OTHERS, VOW TO JOIN HANDS WITH PLSGEO COMMISSION TO ENABLE IT REALIZE ITS SET GOALS

By: Valentine Adese (JP),

Wives of top politicians in Plateau State, have vowed to join hands with the Plateau State Gender and Equal Opportunity Commission to achieve its set goals.

The women made this fight a priority, after a One-Day Engagement Programs with leaders of the Commission at the Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA) Hall, in Jos, the capital of the state today. 

THE GROUP PICTURE

The women in attendance were the wives of the Chief of Staff to the Plateau State Governor, Barr. Caleb Mutfwang, and that of the Secretary to the Government of Plateau State, and the Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly.

Others were the wives of Commissioners and Legislators in the state.

 

THE BALANCING

The women in their unanimous voice before the end of the engagement, promised to use their position to create more awareness on the Gender issues by making sure that, persons who break the Law are adequately punished.

In her goodwill message to the gathering, the wife of the SGS, Mrs. Ulan Victoria Jatau, called on the Commission, to also have same engagement with their husbands to enable them be on the same page. 

MRS. ULAN

 According to her, “This will reduce the risk of being misinterpreted in their course of intervention”.

She however, called on other participating women to see the fight alongside the Commission as a priority.

She said, “Who does the raping, the domestic violence, and beating, are they not boys or men? Who gave birth to them and who trains them, are they not women? If we build the children properly, we will reduce these violence in all its forms. I am sure after this engagement we are not going home the way we came!”

Contributing on the same line, Pharm. Mrs. Naanpoe Bukar, wife of the Majority Leader, thanked the Commission for organizing the program.

She said, “With this awareness today, we shall step it down because, this is one of the major reasons why our husbands were elected”.

BAR. OLIVIA

While thanking the Chairman of the Commission, Barr. Mrs. Olivia Dazyam, for the program, she called on the State Government to give more support to the Commission.

Earlier, in their various welcoming remarks, Barr. Mrs. Olivia Dazyam, and the Secretary of the Commission, Bar. Nalong Gumut had told the participants that the Commission organized the program in order to draw the attentions of the wives of the state top politicians to the issues surrounding the Gender Balancing issues and the level of domestic violence being experienced in the state.

They also took turns to brief the women of the achievements of the Commission within the last 9 months of its existence.

The Chairman, Olivia Dazyam urged the women to fight alongside the Commission to reduce the constraints of Secrecy, Culture, and Forgiveness that is making the Law ineffective and unenforceable.

She said, “Forgiveness should come after trial and conviction and not before”.

She also told the women to help the Commission get the needed safe spaces, while calling on the Governor to look at the strength of the staff side by side the demands for the services of the Commission.

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TO BE CONTINUED…