NAWOJ Decries Gender Violence

The Rivers State
branch of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists has registered its displeasure over violence against women.
In a peaceful road walk organized by the body, members were sighted carrying placards with inscriptions ranging from “women can be leaders too, women arise and exercise your right to vote, …to let women also have a voice in the running of their affairs and violence against women is bad!”
Addressing newsmen during the walk in Port Harcourt recently, leader of the group, who is also the chairman of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists in Rivers State, Mrs Okonkwo Lilian, said the road walk was the way her association had chosen to commemorate the International Women’s Day in the State.
She said it provides a forum for the female journalists to air their feelings over the injustice melted on women in the country.
Mrs Okonkwo condemned every form of violence against women ranging from domestic, social, to political while calling on the government to give the education of the girl-child a priority attention.
She sued for peace in the state and nation at large, as the only premise for sustainable development.
It will be recalled that Mrs Okonkwo Lilian has since assumption of office as the chairman of the female journalists in the state, pledged to use her office to advance the course of the down-trodden females in the state.

Sylvia ThankGod-Amadi