The Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has declared her commitment towards empowerment, rural farming, and health for women and children in the country.
Kennedy-Ohanenye disclosed this on Monday on assumption of duty and meeting with journalists in Abuja.
She said the ministry would work towards ameliorating the sufferings of women and children, particularly improved access to health care services and farming for those in the rural areas.
Consequently, she explained that women across the six geopolitical zones will be trained on various skills, which they will also cascade to others to improve their livelihood, nation’s GDP, address street begging and insecurity.
“These are some of the things I will achieve from now to 100 days in office such as empowering women, teaching them skills, training the trainees for them to empower at least 10 people for us.
“I intend to start training the trainees in the six geopolitical zones, in which we will choose states or ballots to decide the states we will start from.
“If we are able to achieve it in 100 days, we will definitely look for people that will donate the materials for the people trained to start working on their skills, but on condition that each of them will train 10 people, which we will equally empower them,” she added.
On rural farming, the minister appealed to the public to desist from using their positions and connection to grab programmes targeted at a group.
” If we ask rural women farmers and you use connection to grab what belongs to them, when you know that you are not going to the village to do the farming.
“These are some of the things that we will not tolerate because I want to work with women and see those that are suffering, we look towards them and assist them,” she said.
