FG tasks agencies on women inclusion in management positions

The Federal Government has called on the four Agencies under the Ministry of Interior to appoint  women into various  management positions with a view  to avoiding   gender discrimination, more so  to promote gender equality in the public service.

Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola stated this  during the official unavailing and  launch of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Gender Policy Document in Abuja.

Aregbesola, in his keynote address, titled: “No woman should be left behind,” noted that there should be no  discrimination in gender, as he called for the promotion of equal advancement of women and men in all sectors.

The Minister charged the Commandant-General of NSCDC, Dr.Ahmed Abubakar Audi, to promote gender inclusiveness within the corps and  ensure that women are given equal opportunity to enable them  prove their pontentiality in the service.

“Our nation has faced security challenges in recent times, there has been a long – standing insurgency in the North-East, banditry in the North-West and North Central, farmers- herders clashes all over, kidnapping for ransom in our schools, this called for more security architectures in the schools which resorted in the establishment of the  Female Squad by the Corps.”

The Minister who attributed the current security challenges to  the emergence of the novel COVID-19 pandemic stated further that the Nigerian security agencies have risen strongly to face these challenges.

“Female Squadrons are ready to face these security challenges,” Aregbesola emphasized.

Earlier, in his remarks, the Commandant-General of the Corps, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi,  noted that the formulation of the NSCDC Gender Policy was anchored on the outcome of a gender assessment exercise conducted in three formal security institutions in 2019 which included NSCDC.

Audi commended the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola for giving him a matching order on  assumption of duty early this year that, “I should Introduce a robust  policy initiatives for the establishment of Female Squad in the NSCDC to curtail the security challenges in our schools across the nation.”

Similarly, the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Dame Pauline Talen, commended the gender sensitive policies of the Minister and that of the  Commandant-General,  their commitment to the plight of  women, which according to her will  surely  address incisant  gender based  violence against women.

The Women Affairs Minister also used the occasion to confer an  Award, titled; “He  for She” on the  Commandant-General of NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Audi, for his devotion and commitment to the promotion  of women in  top management positions of the service.

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