New Year: Nwifuru’s Aide, Nkwegu, Intensifies Advocacy on Gender-Based Awareness
As part of activities marking the New Year, an aide to the Governor of Ebonyi State, Rt. Hon. Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, Miss Maryann Nkwegu, has intensified advocacy campaigns on gender-based awareness, calling for collective action to curb gender-based violence and discrimination in society. Nkwegu, who spoke during an awareness engagement with stakeholders and community members in event of New Year celebration at Okpoduma-Agbaja, emphasized that the fight against gender-based violence requires sustained education, policy enforcement, and attitudinal change across all levels of society. She noted that gender-based violence remains a major social challenge, stressing that the protection of men, women, children, and other vulnerable groups must be treated as a shared responsibility of government, traditional institutions, religious bodies, and civil society organizations. According to her, the administration of Governor Nwifuru is committed to promoting gender equity, safeguardin...
