Janet
Bassey
Niger Delta women under the aegis of
United Niger Delta Forum Women of Destiny have vowed to address what they
referred to as an age long deprivation of God’s endowment that would have been
a blessing to the women of the region.
Speaking through the National Women
Leader Ese Glory during the formal inauguration/fund raising ceremony of the
body in Lagos over the week end, the body bemoaned the situation they found
themselves which they noted as an instrument of impoverishment caused by the
activities of some personalities they described as nefarious and greedy who are
working with” invading powers to be”.
It frowned at the now commonplace
situation where the distressed and suppressed Niger Delta women are in the news
for the wrong reasons of either prostitution or any other related crimes
nationally and internationally.
The body therefore pleads with its
women folks to always hold their heads high, eschew any form of activities that
will bring them into disrepute.
Giving reasons for the evolvement of
the body at this time, she cited poor leadership that reduced the Niger Delta
women to fetchers of water and hewers of wood as reason for the urgent need to
change the status quo.
On the way forward, Ese
reiterate that though the body strongly oppose violent and
confrontational approach to resolving issues, nonetheless holds the view that
articulated vision for directional vision will just about do it.
Expatiating further, she noted that
having indentified that societal vice is traced to poor leadership, it has
therefore become pertinent that the body’s fundamental objective is to
sensitize and educate members on the need for the judicious utilization of
their political sovereignty.
They vowed to cast their votes in
the next election for credible candidates who will be sensitive to the plight
of the Niger Delta Women of Destiny
“Our women are hungry, our
environment completely rendered unproductive. We demand the establishment of
governmental projects that will eradicate the untold hardship we are going
through” she concludes
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