The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Dame Pauline Tallen, has urged relevant stakeholders to collectively support and create enabling environment for women’s active participation in politics and leadership.
Tallen made the call recently in Lokoja at a two-day Awareness and Sensitisation Programme for Stakeholders to Support Women’s Participation in Kogi state Election, North-central Zone.
The minister, who was represented by the assistant chief social welfare officer (ACSWO) of the ministry, Mrs. Victoria Lar, said the meeting was to create awareness and sensitise the Kogites on the need to give women a chance in the forthcoming state election.
According to her, the role of women in politics, governance and in nation building cannot be over-emphasised.
“It signed on to affirmative action and indeed 30 per cent minimum representation for women by virtue of signing on to those resolutions and agreements,” she said.
Earlier, the Kogi state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Bolanle Amupitan, said the state ministry had continued to key into all federal government’s initiatives to freeing women from the web of poverty and discrimination.
Amupitan, who was represented by the ministry’s permanent secretary, Mr. Suleiman Abdullahi, stressed that Governor Yahaya Bello had appointed women into sensitive positions considered by men as “no go area” for women.
