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Chief Justice urged women to empower themselves
Nkawkaw, March 3, Ghanadot/GNA- Chief
Justice Mrs Georgina Wood, has urged women to use
opportunities available to them to acquire education and to
empower themselves to be able to take up challenges.
She said the struggle for empowerment and equality of women
could not be achieved if they lacked the requisite
qualification to position them to assume higher mantles.
Chief Justice Mrs Wood was addressing a thanksgiving service
to round-off Ghana’s 50th anniversary celebrations,
organised by the Mothers Union of the Catholic Church at
Nkawkaw on Sunday.
She said “Whiles I urge women to be assertive and advocate
change, I equally challenge them to eschew laziness and
envies, which have always been associated with women and
educate themselves.”
According to the Chief Justice, women were the backbone and
conscience of society and they must be abreast with the
times to justify their call for inclusion in development
efforts.
Chief Justice Mrs Wood advised women that their fight for
empowerment should not take away their core responsibility
of being humble to their husbands and nurturing of children.
She thanked the Union for supporting hers during her
appointment to the office of Chief Justice.
The District Chief Executive for Kwahu West, Nana Kofi Kesse,
asked the people to support government policies that aimed
at championing their cause.
He appealed to the Catholic Church to establish a senor high
school for girls in the area to augment the many junior high
schools the Church had established.
Reverend Father Paul Laweh of the St Michael Catholic Church
asked Ghanaians to reflect things that would propel the
country forward.
He advocated the teaching of religion at all levels of the
educational system.
Rev Laweh called on parents to invest in the children’s
education and asked political leaders to be transparent in
the handling of national affairs.
He said it was not for nothing that a woman had been
appointed Chief Justice and that it was God’s way of
encouraging women to acquire education and to empower them
to enable them to find their rightful places in society.
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