Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Olayemi Oyebanji, has enlisted school-age boys in the fight against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) to prevent the occurrence of the menace among students in the state.
Oyebanji, who spoke in Ado-Ekiti, yesterday, while delivering an address at the training of male students on gender-based violence prohibition in public secondary schools in the state, said male students needed to be equipped with basic knowledge on the menace to curb it in the society.
She noted that the battle against the scourge in schools and the society might not be totally won if school boys are not given the right orientation and enlightenment on its danger.
The training, which was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Adolescent Girls’ Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), was attended by school administrators, teachers, officials of Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS), Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), Ministry of Education, among others.
The Ekiti First Lady emphasized that it was of utmost importance to adequately educate the male child on prevention of violence, abuse of fellow students in schools, especially girls, and to ensure a peaceful society devoid of g
She further urged the participating students not to be selfish with knowledge acquired at the training but rather share with friends and neighbours to aid a desired violence-free society.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Science and Technology, Dr. Adebimpe Aderiye, said the government would work out modalities to ensure a brighter future for the young ones, urging them to reciprocate the gesture by being passionate and obedient to good counselling.
Also, the state AGILE Coordinator, Mrs. Yewande Adesua, encouraged the students to make judicious use of the training and focus attention both on their studies and other moral lessons.
Meanwhile, the resource persons, Mrs. Layo Olawoye, a sex educationist and Prof. Babatunde Olofinbiyi from Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, took the participants through preventable measures against all activities that could affect their future negatively while attaining puberty age.
Olawoye discouraged kids against early sexual habits, infatuation, masturbation, harassment of the opposite sex, among others.
