POLITICS OF STOMACH INFRASTRUCTURE

Oshiomhole Urges Women.


Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has urged women in the state to shun politicians who preach politics of “stomach infrastructure” saying they do not mean well for the state and the nation.

Addressing women at this year’s Edo Women Conference held in Benin City, the state capital, Oshiomhole said: “Edo women have the right to question politicians on their credibility because it is no longer the business of rice, salt, beans, or money; it’s to know what happened in the past and compare it with the present. Women, you have the right qualifications because intelligence is not determined by the possession of certificates.

099-Adams-Oshiomhole.jpg - 099-Adams-Oshiomhole.jpg “No society can make any progress if by its policies or action of policies, majority or simple majority of your populace remain under developed. If as a result of poorly articulated public policies or even when the policy is properly articulated, but not well implemented to the spirit and the letter, if by our actions and inactions in government or out of government, we do not empower the majority of our citizens, then we cannot talk of empowering anybody.”

The governor further said: “All of us, individually or collectively, should   lament the deprivation of women.”
He urged the women to have confidence in themselves, saying: “You are not powerless as women, but always have confidence that as women, you are not inferior to the other sex, and that it’s not all about competition between you and the men, rather organise yourselves, mobilise and show determination to change a situation that has deprived, victimised and oppressed you.

“The day you make up your mind to do that, you would have come out of your woes and lamentations.”
The governor, while calling on them to stop the preaching that men should give women opportunity, said: “My own life has taught me one thing that you cannot sermonise to those who benefit from a particular order; those who are responsible for iniquity in the society; those who oppress and watch others being oppressed, to abandon the system that gives them so much privileges.”

In a paper presentation entitled: 'Edo Women Society: Our Issues, our Voices’, the Guest Speaker, Mrs. Esohe Aighatise, highlighted some issues facing Edo women in contemporary times.

She said:  “The lack of education is one of the problems facing women in our contemporary society. When there is a choice of who to send to school, the girl child stands at a disadvantage against the male child. When you train a woman, you train a nation.”

Aighatise stated other issues to include cultural barriers such as female genital mutilation, political inequalities, societal values among others.

Present at the occasion were top government functionaries including the Esama of Benin, Chief  Osawaru Igbinedion, Professor Tes Sorae and leaders of various women groups in the state. (Achieve)

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