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Edo Gov, Obaseki Appoints 18 Women As Special Assistants

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Obaseki appoints 19 women as aides.

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has appointed 18 women as his special assistants on gender matters in the state.

Obaseki also appointed one woman, Efosa Uyigue, as a special adviser on gender matters.

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Naija News gathered that the special assistants are to report to the special adviser who later reports to Mr. Obaseki.

The 19 women were sworn-in on Monday at the Government House, Benin City.

Obaseki said, “I need 19 sets of eyes to help me see and identify what is happening with women across the state,” the governor said during the swearing-in.

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“I want to know what is happening to our women in the market, hospitals, their children’s education and issues that relate to human trafficking in your local government areas.

“The women as powerful economic units and social mobilisers who can change our society. We should create the avenue to reach out to them, know what they are going through and not only to use them for political gains. We need to support them to do more for themselves.”

Defending the appointment, one of the governor’s media aide, Crusoe Osagie said that the numbers of those appointed were not too much.

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According to Osagie, “Special assistant is the lowest in the ranking of political appointees. Their salary is around N80, 000 each and they are not entitled to official vehicles.

“They don’t work from the government house; they work from their different wards where they stay in touch with the grassroots to know exactly what their problems are and ensuring that they feed the Government House back with respect to the challenges the people are going through in their locality,” he said.

Osagie added, “The Edo State government appointees are comparatively the lowest in number in all the states of the federation.

“You have 18 commissioners, 8 special advisers and 210 special assistants and 58 senior special assistants. In all, we have less than 400 political appointees. In other states, you have up to 1,000 appointees.”

“The value these people bring to the government far outweighs the money spent on them,” he asserted.