By Ezekiel Dontinna
The Team Lead of Tattaunawa Round Table, Prince Charles Dickson, has admonished Plateau Women to stand on their feet beyond 16 days of activism celebration and form a confraternity that protects their rights to issues.
He gave the charge Monday, while delivering lecture at the Seminar organised by the Plateau State Chapter of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) on the occasion marking the 2024 Sixteen Days of Activism, held at the NUJ Secretariat Jos, the State capital.
The Tattaunawa Team Lead, said, “the government of the day is trying, but they can do better. So, then, women must stand up on their feet to ask for their demands beyond just 16 days.
“If not, there will be another 16 days of activism, another one and another one. Use this mechanism, whether it is in NAWOJ, Church system or Mosque system. Women on the Plateau should have some level of confraternity that protects their rights.
“And it should be in such a way that, when a woman is touched, all of us are touched and when one woman is hurt, we will begin to sing. You must have to ask what happened to the Plateau woman all over the country. That is what we call collective spirit”, Dickson advised.
He, however, described Plateau Women as the most hardworking, loyal and dedicated to the development of their homes and should not taken for granted, but treated rightly.
Dickson, therefore, called on the elderly women on the Plateau to start grooming upcoming Women who could talk truth to power like the likes late Ngo Hannatu Chollom and others to help liberate women from suppression.
Declaring the seminar opened, the Plateau State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hon. Caroline Dafur, who was the Chairman of the occasion, commended NAWOJ for organising this thought provoking seminar and promised to collaborate with them to help educate the society.
Represented by Director CSDA, Mrs Felicity Gurumnan, the Commissioner described the theme: “Ending Gender-Based Violence Beyond Celebration” as timely considering how vulnerable women and children were in today’s society.
Earlier, the Plateau State Chairperson of NAWOJ, Mrs. Nene Dung, said it was to reaffirm their dedication to see how women and children were protected and rights respected in the society.
She, therefore, commended the State Ministry for Women Affairs and Social Development for creating a Safe Space in Bokkos Local Government where gender violence victims were housed.
“We are asking like Oliver Twist that, more Safe Space Projects be created all over the state especially, in the State Capital City because there are situations where we want to remove the survivors of violence environment to take them to”, Dung appealed.
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