Monica Ugwuanyi Is Campaigning Against Gender-Based Violence In Enugu State (Photos)

 

The wife of the Enugu State Governor, Mrs. Monica Ugochi Ugwuanyi, on Wednesday, rounded off her state and zonal campaigns against gender-based violence, calling for an all-inclusive and sustained crusade to stem the tide of domestic violence, sexual abuse, female genital mutilation, public harassment, among other forms of violence against women in the society. Mrs. Ugwuanyi who also used the events to scale up awareness on yellow fever and the importance of the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination, described gender-based violence as barbaric and a violation of human rights.

Sensitizing women during the state flag off of the campaign against gender-based violence, held at Michael Okpara Square, Enugu, as well as the campaign in Enugu North, Enugu West and Enugu East senatorial districts, Mrs. Ugwuanyi lamented that the violent behaviour has eaten deep into the fabric of the society, adding that it cuts across most human societies, irrespective of gender.

According to her, “We recognize that not only ladies are victims of gender violence, some guys also are crushed via their better halves”.

The Enugu First Lady maintained that a few children had been being molested by using their fathers and spouse and children and urged women to preach and sensitize the humans towards the ugly act.

She explained that the aim of the sensitization campaign become to enlighten the ladies of the 3 senatorial districts at the exhausting challenge and suggested them to hold the campaign to church buildings, faculties, families, places of work, among others, stressing that women have the numerical energy to trade the society for the higher.

Mrs. Ugwuanyi similarly harped on the importance of the continuing COVID-19 vaccination and charged women to drive the campaign for the public to get vaccinated as a positive way of containing the pandemic.

Advising girls to be respectful and keep away from matters that might cause violence, the governor’s spouse advocated them to involve themselves in politics narrating that they have got lots to attain in the event that they unite and communicate in unison.

“Let us come together and communicate with one voice. We have the numerical strength, we are able to vote in our contributors supplied we are united”, she stated.

Also speaking, a Consultant, Public Health Physician, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Dr. Nwachukwu Ugwunna, who added a lecture on “The Current Wave of COVID-19 and Necessary Containment Measures”, revealed that the last COVID-19 lockdown created sufficient opportunity for humans to assess the extent of gender-based violence amongst families and the society at huge.

Dr. Ugwunna maintained that the poverty and frustration engendered by means of the last the lockdown skyrocketed the extent of gender violence within the own family stage.

“You realize that the final COVD-19 lockdown delivered poverty, frustration amongst families, in contrast to what it changed into in which inside the morning own family members move to their different organizations and schools, this time circle of relatives participants did no longer go everywhere from morning until night, starvation, poverty became usual thereby ensuing to violence”.

In his lecture on “Yellow Fever Symptoms, Prevention and Vaccination”, the Deputy Incident Manager, Emergency Operations Centre, Enugu State Ministry of Health, Dr. Uchechukwu Joel Okenwa, spoke on measures of checking the spate of the epidemic many of the humans.

Dr. Okenwa said that yellow fever has claimed many lives in the society and entreated the humans to keep away from something in order to cause them to liable to the ailment, which he said, is because of a selected species of night time mosquito.

He consequently enjoined the human beings to maintain their environment easy, smooth gutters, stagnant water, put on lengthy-sleeves and vaccinate themselves to check yellow fever, declaring that there is currently no medicine for the ailment.

Other folks who spoke on the events consist of the General Manager TAMARSAL, Mrs. Evelyn Onah, the Zonal Commander NAPTIP, Enugu State Command, Mrs. Comfort Agboko, Executive Director Heroine Women Foundation, Mrs. Onyinye Mama.

Chairmen of Local Government Councils, their wives and other top authorities functionaries also attended the occasions, which were powered with the aid of the Enugu State Ministry of Gender Affairs and Social Development, Office of the Wife of the Governor and the governor’s spouse’s pet challenge, Ugo’s Touch of Life Foundation (U-TOLF).