A socio-cultural group of women of Igbo Origin, NKATA Ndi Inyom Igbo (NNII), says it is marking its one year anniversary with a Zoom event with the theme, “Enhancing Women’s Participation and Partnership in Governance and Development”.
The group said the event would take place on Saturday, August 21, 2021, by 12 noon and would be divided into three sessions over a few hours.
According to a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, NNII, Nnedinso Ogaziechi, the group revealed that the Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District and Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe would be speaking.
A few other panellists would be discussing the various issues that are dear to women as equal stakeholders in national development.
The vision of the group is to galvanise women across regional and religious lines to intensify the push for complimentary leadership that can help to facilitate development especially after the global economic crisis in a pandemic that has triggered deeper problems in all sectors of national and global life.
This would be in line with the Motto of the group, ‘Partnering for Development’.
The group seeks to let the impact of women be felt in all sectors of our nation from the family, regions to national levels.
This to Nkata would entail a revival of our valued cultures and moral ethos, a deeper socio-cultural impact, better economic empowerment and good political inclusiveness that can fully help to maximise the capacity of empowered women.
NKATA is a child of circumstance according to the founder and president General of the group, former Minister of Women Affairs, Iyom Josephine Anenih (mni).
She feels that a year after the inauguration of the group, it is apposite to mark the one year anniversary of the group with an opportunity to invite Nigerians both at home and in the diaspora to a round table conversation giving verve to the core mission of the group – NKATA, which in Igbo means Conversation.
The group feels that as women, they must maximize their potentials both in families, communities and nationally. This, the group believes, is the only pathway to development that the country desperately needs.
