GUEST SPEAKER, MRS ANNKO BRIGGS

To build a good nation is to build good homes. It takes a lot to achieve this nowadays because our children are faced with bigger temptations than we faced in our own time.

It is a great opportunity to have our father building with us. It is a privilege to be here.

There are too many challenges facing the world today - insecurity, wars, inflation, same with Nigeria - poverty, corruption, moral decay and lack of accountability both in our personal lives and in our leaders over us.

When a woman who sells garri in the market beats in the container she uses to measure, or the woman selling fruits puts them in hot water to make them look as if they are ripe.

This tells us that if such people have access to our millions and trillions, they will mismanage them to their own benefits.

In the past, women were denied education. When I was in school, many girls who were much older were in the same class with me.

But now, we have women in different positions and places of influence as Doctors, Pilots, Professors, Administrators, etc. Yet, they are not really allowed to have the privilege to make changes as is appropriate.

In America, women fought for the right to vote. In Nigeria, women in the Southern parts of Nigeria were only able to vote after the war.
Women indeed are change makers. We are always part of the building process and we are from now to be more encouraged to allow them to be part of the process.

We are happy that our Father has confidence in us, this is why he is bringing us together in this forum. You believe this too, that is why you are here - to make the sacrifice that is needed to make the necessary changes.

Good homes are the bedrock of a good society. Breakdown of values in society is a reflection of how the homes are. Women no longer stay at home to raise the children, we have been going out to work. And we have no choice than to commit our children to other people to raise for us. And no matter what laws we lay down at home, there is no assurance that the Nanny or the caregiver would not also influence them behind our backs.

Don't blame yourselves. We can make changes still. We need to go back to the situation where our offices make provision for creches where we can keep our babies so that they will be around us. Even women who do business in market places can also make this arrangement for themselves, in order to have their children with them.

We women are change makers, and we must be part of the process of keeping our environment good and clean.

Women must also be involved in technology. We must not give our children phones without making efforts to oversee how they use them.
We are not the only women who have rose to make changes, in the past, we had:

~ Aba Women Riot - they rose to fight for their rights so that they would not be levied taxes.
~ Rosa Parker, a black woman refused to vacate her seat for a white woman in America in a train. Fighting for the rights of the blacks started from there.
~ Funmilayo Ranskme-Kuti
~ Prof Dora Akunyili
~ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
~ Madam Ekpo

It is now your time to make your own difference.

Before I end this address, I will like to acknowledge our Father again and appreciate him for making this forum - Women for Change - possible. I want to also tell my sisters that we cannot afford to let him down. This forum must continue and next year, we must come together again to see how far we have gone.

Thank you very much, and God bless you.

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OLAADEGBU:
Day 1 || Possibilities Of Faith || Aug. 22, 2024


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