Ebonyi Lawmaker distributes educational materials to girl students

By Egede Sylvester, Abakaliki

Member representing Ohaozara East Constituency in Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Hon Mrs Lilian Chinwe Nwachukwu has distributed educational materials to girl children in five Secondary Schools in her Constituency as part of the program under her Girl Child Educational Programme.

Speaking at the distribution exercise, Hon. Nwachukwu said the gesture was aimed at increasing the enrollment of girl child in the schools and added that she embarked on the programme because of her philosophical believe that " if you train a girl child, you have trained a nation' . The items distributed are exercise books, pens, rulers and pencils. She equally inaugurated Girls Club in all the schools visited.

She advised the beneficiaries to be studious and stay away from vices that can disrupt their academic pursuit, and noted that the essence of inaugurating the girls club in those schools is to be having constant interaction with the girls children in the schools and implored them to use the club in enhancing their morality in and outside the school. In their separate reactions, Miss Ndubisi Angela of Ezi Okposi High School, Miss Okereke Divine of Ugwulangwu Secondary School, Miss Eze Chidinma of Comprehensive Secondary School Mgbom Ugwulangwu and Agwu Blessing of Mgbom N'Achara Comprehensive Secondary School, all extolled the sensitivity of the Lawmaker by aligning her self with girl child education initiatives and implored her to continue sustaining the programme as it has yielded positive results within it's inauguration.

The beneficiary schools are Government Secondary School Okposi, Eze Okposi High School, Ugwulangwu Secondary School, Comprehensive Secondary School Mgbom Ugwulangwu and Mgbom N'Achara Comprehensive Secondary School.