IWD: Gombe Women’s Commissioner Donates to Correctional Centre, Specialist Hospital

From Abubakar Rabilu Gombe

In an effort to commemorate the International Women’s Day, the Gombe state Commissioner of Women Affairs and Social Welfare and Development, Ms. Asma’u Muhammad Iganus, has donated goods and toiletries to the Gombe Correctional Centre and the Specialist Hospital.

The commissioner said that her ministry was reaching out with the support through the cooperation of many women organizations in the state to celebrate the International Women’s Day, which is being held all over the world from the 8th of March, until the end of the month.

Ms. Iganus said the theme of this year’s IWD, “Invest in Women, Accelerate Progress,” stressed the need to invest in women to improve their lives.

She said the vision of Governor Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya since assuming office, had given priority to the education sector, especially on the education of the girl child.

Iganus explained that the BESDA program had registered more than thirty thousand out of school children to schools across the state, while adding that for over 18 years, the VAP Law, which remained untouched on the floor of the house, was recently assented to by the governor.

She said the government had out of respect for women remembered women who were in detention in the correctional centre and donated to them, as well as those who were sick in the hospital.

At the correctional centre, they provided 10 mattresses, blankets, medicines, sanitary pads and towels, as well as soaps for bathing, laundry, and others.

While welcoming the commissioner’s team, the in charged of the centre, an Assistant Controller of the Gombe Correctional Facility, Raymond Jimba, praised the Commissioner of Women Affairs, and all the women’s organizations that participated in the ceremony for remembering those who were in the correctional facility.

He said that since they have been receiving guests who come to visit them, they have never received such a large group

The women’s groups that accompanied the commissioner were the National Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, Women Doctors, Women Farmers’ Association, ‘No Woman, No Nation’ as well as the Women’s Lawyers’ Association, FIDA and NCWS, among others.

From there, the team went to the Specialists’ Hospital, where they also donated similar items as well as baby clothes.