Nigerian Army takes gender advocacy to Sokoto

The Nigerian Army said Monday it has taken its advocacy on Gender Mainstreaming to 8 Division Area of Responsibility, Sokoto state in collaboration with British Defence Section, West Africa.

The advocacy will be highpoint of a workshop tagged “Gender mainstreaming for enhanced professionalism in the NA”, organised by the Department of Civil-Military Affairs and will hold between January 16 and January 18 2022.

The workshop, according to Director Army Public Relations Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu was declared opened by the General Officer Commanding 8 Division, Nigerian Army, Maj Gen Uwem Bassey, who was represented at the event by Brigadier General Mohammed Abdullahi, Chief of Staff, Headquarters 8 Division.

”The workshop, he said, seeks to build the requisite capacity of officers and men of the NA, particularly as assigned missions within the joint environment are becoming complex, increasingly expanding and dynamic in the areas of gender mainstreaming, lnternational Humanitarian Law and Fundamentals Human Rights”.

Nwachukwu in a statement noted: “The first phase of the workshop was conducted in some selected formations across the NA. The second phase has been approved with Sokoto as the focal start point.

“Participants were drawn from security and para-military agencies, Civil Society Organisations, Humanitarian Agencies and other critical stakeholders”.