FOMWAN Tasks Govt. On Education, Security Of Girl Child

Federation of Muslims Women’s Association of Nigeria(FOMWAN) has tasked governments to form educational crises respond plan that would sustain education access to millions of children in schools without necessary compromising their security.

Alhaja Aminat Abibunllah-Akinpelumi, Ondo State Amirah of FOMWAN said this at the 11th Annual state conference of the association held in Ilara-Mokin, Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State on Saturday.

The theme of the conference are:Toward Inclusive Development In The Post Covid -19 Era: Prospect, Challenges And The Roles Of Muslim Women In Africa.

Abibunllah-Akinpelumi said that the challenges face the women especially school girls in the recent time required government at all levels to ensure their protections and education for the future of the country.

“Our Governments must take urgent steps to look into the security of our children especially girls in the school across the country.

“This is imperative to forestall the massive dropout of students from schools particularly girls as a result of insecurity.

“Another challenges confronting women and children is poverty compounded by the fall in naira, inflation even in food items and loss of livelihoods resulting from covid-19 pandemic which must be address by government.

“Muslim women must be sound in islamic knowledge and some rudimentary knowledge of how technology interfaces with her role as the first teacher of her children and other endeavours in life.

“Women must be prepared for a dynamic world and the insecurity pressure on their traditional roles of nurturing the next generation.

“Government must also take urgent action to ensure food security for all by strengthening the naira and regulating food prices to make basic necessities of life affordable to the common man,” Abibunllah-Akinpelumi said.

She, therefore, called on the Federal and state government to make its women economic employment programmes reach more vulnerable woman by working directly with respectable women organisations like FOMWAN.

Alhaji Chandy Dhikirullahi-Adams,Ondo State Chairman of Muslim welfare Board who delivered the lecture at the event called on African Muslim Women to use their strategic position as the bedrock to nurture muslim children towards achieving the societal goals in the post covid era.

Dhikirullahi-Adams, who was represented by the Board Treasurer, Alhaji Adeleke Dada explained that violence against women got increased since the beginning of the lockdown in 2020.

“When a Muslim woman and others is empowered economically, socially and politically, she will out great efforts in ensuring that there is an improvement in the people of Africa,” he said.

Also speaking, Oba Francis Adefarakanmi Agbede, Olowa of Igbara-Oke represented by the Sapetu of Igbara Oke, Chief Moses Akinwale said the future of Nigeria depends on the women ‘men have done it for over 61 years without much significant’.

Oba Agbede, who called on Nigeria women to step up to have a Nigeria president said it would make the country a better one.