The International Women’s Day is a day set aside all over the world to appreciate women and focus on their shortcomings in the society by virtue of them being the ‘weaker gender.’ The theme of the 2012 International Women’s Day was “Empower women-End Hunger and Poverty.”
In line with this, in Ogun State, the Wife of the Former Governor celebrated the day by inviting women across the State to a programme tagged “UPLIFTing Women” at the MKO Abiola Stadium Kuto, Abeokuta.
Women trooped into the stadium in their thousands as early as 8 O’clock in the morning to celebrate the day. Here they were entertained by march past displays from various women groups that were in attendance. Various artists and entertainers were also at hand to make the day a lively one for all. Worthy of mention was the Midnight Crew, Alhaji Sule, Rocky FeIla’s just to mention a few.
His Former Excellency, Senator lbikunle Amosun deemed it fit to come and felicitate with the womenfolk in the State and honored the women with an appearance at the stadium and a pledge to continue to be gender sensitive in his executive decisions.
The high point of the day was the empowerment exercise, where Mrs. Amosun announced that she had been able to secure items such as Deep Freezers, Bajaj Motorcycles, Generating Sets, Sewing Machines, Bags of Rice, Grinding Machines and other items at distributorship prices to be purchased by members of established cooperatives within the State and spread the repayment for these times over a 12-month interest free period.