Okowa calls for Women empowerment to bridge inequality gap
Delta Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that women empowerment needs to be tackled with concerted action to bridge widening inequality gap in Nigeria and African.
The governor stated this while inaugurating Women Empowerment and Skills Acquisition Programme (WESAP) in Asaba on Monday.
He said that the issue of women empowerment had for a long time been more than a national concern.
He observed that in most African traditional societies, experience had shown that in spite of comprising majority of the population, women were routinely abused, marginalized, and discriminated against, particularly in the economic sector.
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According to the governor, both experts and policy makers agree that empowering women, especially the poor rural women, is fundamental to economic development in Nigeria.
He said that financial freedom for women meant more confident women, less burden for the men, better living standards for the family, improved communities and a sense of fulfillment.
Okowa said that the state government had taken a step further in its entrepreneurial and skills acquisition training programmes by unveiling WESAP patterned after other entrepreneurship development programmes such as STEP, YAGEP, GEST and RYSA.
