Banigo Vows To Continue Impacting Lives Of Young People

Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr. Ipalibo Harry Banigo has said that she remains passionate about positively impacting on the lives of young people, especially the girl-child.
Banigo stated this while presenting handbooks to teach young people on how to deal with the issues of sexual abuse, at the Federal Government College in Port Harcourt, last Wednesday.
Represented by the Director of Documentation in her office, Paul Damgbor, Banigo said she decided to put the book together in view of the fact that a lot of people were sexually abused but do not know how to go about it or report the ugly incident.
She said it would enable the students, who were mostly members of the Protect the Girl Child Initiative Peer Club, to understand their rights, privileges, and duties as persons.
Banigo noted that it would even help persons that may have confided in them about being sexually abused, one way or the other, which according to her, would stem the tide of sexual molestation on young people, particularly the girl-child.
In her response, the Principal of Federal Government College, Port Harcourt, Dr Iyang Ukpe, expressed gratitude to the deputy governor for the initiative that came in after the COVID-19 sit-at-home, which exacerbated the cases of rape and sexual abuse, adding that this was a timely intervention because of the awareness it has availed.
In her presentation on the topic,‘Preventing Unintended Adolescent Pregnancy’, the resource person, Mrs. Onyiye Anaba, who disclosed that sexual violence was a constant one, said that what they did was to tailor the topic around the central theme of the week.
Anaba said many adolescents have become pregnant unintentionally, adding that the aim was to discuss the causes and consequences as well as the prevailing data and statistics on unintended pregnancies with adolescents within the ages of 10 and 19 years, stressing that at the end of the day, they tried to help them with ways of preventing unintended adolescent pregnancies.