See what Saraki did with these female students to celebrate women’s day (photos)

– Senate President, Bukola Saraki met with female students of Model Secondary School to mark International Women’s Day

– Saraki engaged with the students freely

– The students asked if he would support the emergence of a female Senate President in the future

As part of events to mark the International Women’s Day, the Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki,on Tuesday, March 8 met with female students of Model Secondary School, Maitama to discuss ways that the Senate could help empower female students in Nigeria’s public education sector.

Saraki engaged with the students freely, asking them questions that related to their coursework, school curriculum, and aspirations for the future.

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In turn, the students responded by asking the Senate President questions that related to female representation and participation in government, the efforts that the government is taking to bring back the Chibok girls, and whether he would support the emergence of a female Senate President in the future.

On his social media pages, Saraki had this to say about the visit from the young secondary school students.

I met with a very interesting group of young ladies from Model Secondary School, Maitama, Abuja today.

These… https://t.co/w5tPfzbxUy

— Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) March 8, 2016

“I met with a very interesting group of young ladies from Model Secondary School, Maitama, Abuja today.
These young ladies fascinated me with the fearlessness of their questions and the depth of their responses.

“From our conversation, many of them aspire to be Senators, Doctors, Lawyers, and leaders in their own individual spheres of engagement.

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“As a Senate, we will work to create legislation that allows our female children across the country have the same access to education and other opportunities as our male children because it has been proven that when you teach a woman, you teach a nation.

“Hence, we must start empowering more of our young women. Happy ‪#‎InternationalWomensDay‬.”

The Senate at plenary also passed a motion on International Women’s Day, brought to the floor by Senator Oluremi Tinubu, the Chairman, Senate committee on women affairs.

The motion sought to bring an end to the rampant abduction of girls in the country, examine and strengthen laws relating to violence against women and girls and ensure that Nigerian girls had the same access to education as their male counterparts.

Also, to push for more opportunities for Nigerian female entrepreneurs and work on making gender mainstreaming part of Nigeria’s culture of governance.

See photos below.

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