Aisha Buhari made her
intention to protect child from all forms of violence and abuse known.
The First Lady of Nigeria,
Aisha Buhari reveal via a tweet in celebration of the International Day Child
in Abuja.
The celebration of the day
also “reflects the successful emergence of girls and young women as a distinct
cohort in development policy , programming , campaigning and research .
She tweeted: “Today, I join
millions of girls around the world to celebrate this year ’ s International Day
of the Girl – child . The theme for this year’ s celebration is “GirlForce :
Unscripted and Unstoppable ” she added.
She commended the progress
made so far in women advocacy but state that more effort need to be put in
place to watch protecting women and girls from abuse.
“I am happy to note the
progress that has been made in the area of activism by girls to protect their
gender .
“I want to state that more
needs to be done especially to address gender – based violence which seems to
be more pronounced recently and all hands must be on deck to achieve this. ”
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