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| Sophia Horsefall, Osepiribo Ben-Willie * Ivy Davies-Etokakpan. |
Heritage Bank has been commended for being an agent for the actualisation of Sustainable Development Goals SDG 5 – Gender Equality, as well women empowerment for socio-economic growth.
This was stated by Kilali Tribe at the Women Must
Conference 2.0, titled “The Woman and Her Must” organised by The Kilali Tribe
which held in Port Harcourt.
The Kilali Tribe is an association of prolific
Rivers and Bayelsa State women who come together to support themselves through
peer learning, capacity-building initiatives, networking, and mentoring. Also,
provide similar structured support to other women within the community.
Speaking at the event, Ivy Davies-Etokakpan,
President of Eveafrique News who also member of Kilali Tribe, commended
Heritage Bank for taking the lead in championing the empowerment of women over
the years in the country.
“We are proud of Heritage Bank for making us soar
while promoting women empowerment. Over the years, Heritage Bank has proved to
be an agent for the actualisation of achieving SDG 5 – Gender Equality, as well
women empowerment,” she said.
The Executive Director of Heritage Bank, Osepiribo
Ben-Willie affirmed the need to deliberately adopt measures to deepen women
empowerment to drive the nation’s socio-economic growth.
In her closing remarks, Osepiribo Ben-Willie hinted
that the Conference had leveraged Kilali Tribe to come up with blueprint in
promoting women’s equal right to socio-economic empowerment, as this is at the
heart of the SDG5-Gender Equality.
The Executive Director of Heritage Bank affirmed
that women all over have proved to be huge economic asset in the act of
creation of a new sustainable economy, hence gender inclusiveness and women’s
empowerment must be taken as a priority.
According to her, after evaluating the bottlenecks
restraining the Kilali Tribe and other women to attain the platforms to grow
professionally and thrive in all spheres of t heeconomy, it is a call to action
to “tackle the challenges of gender disparity and lack of inclusiveness that
have continued to impede the expected rapid economic empowerment that could
help unshackle our women’s entrepreneurial prowess and foster more
representation for women and girls at decision-making forums and Board levels
in comparison to their peers in the developed countries.”
Ben-Willie added that for women to emerge
economically and socially as independent there was an urgent need to tackle
psychological, social and skill constraints.
Collaborating Ben-Willie’s, the Co-founder and
former Group Executive Director of Sahara Group, Tonye Cole, advocated for
women and girl inclusiveness across all sectors of the society, including
economic participation and decision-making.
According to him, the country should be conscious of
gender equality, whilst emphasising that dealing with the psychological
constraint will enable women to be balanced emotionally.
He stressed the need for organisation to leverage
women positions on Board level, as they are resourceful and could enormously
impact to the growth of any society.
Cole also charged
women in being deliberate to position and champion course that would put them
at the forefront of making difference.
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