Ebonyi Gov’s Wife Promises To Renovate Women Development Centre
By Oko Omaka (Ebonyi)
The First Lady of Ebonyi State and wife of the Governor, Mrs. Mary-Maudline Nwifuru, has promised to renovate the dilapidated Women Development Centre (WDC) in Abakaliki.
The First Lady, who made the promise when the Executive members of the Civil Defence Officers Wives Association’s (CDOWA) in the state paid her a courtesy visit in Abakaliki, said that the skills acquisition centre at the WDC would support and equip women led community-based pressure groups with knowledge, resources and skills to challenge social injustices affecting women and children.
“The reactivation of the centre will improve the livelihood of women and youths for a better society” Mrs. Nwifuru Assured. She urged them to continue to embrace peace in their respective environments and engage in positive work to improve the status of their families.
Speaking earlier, the Chairperson of CDOWA, Mrs. Josephine Elijah, disclosed plans by the association to establish a self-defence academy, where primary and secondary school children would be taught basic self-defence techniques and security consciousness adding that the association’s major objective was to bring officers’ wives to harness their potentials.
“This is imperative owing to the rise of rape, abduction and sexual harassment in the society,” Mrs Elijah said.
