Mrs Betsy Obaseki, the wife of the governorship candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Godwin Obaseki has said failure of past
PDP governments pushed Edo girls into prostitution in
Italy.Saturday
Vanguard cornered her in Edo state on Thursday shortly after her
husband got the endorsement of over 40 men of God and women groups
across the state and she said this when asked
about
prostitutes/child trafficking in Edo state: “Before we castigate our
daughters who are engaging in trafficking or travelling to Italy, I
think we should first sit down and ask why the situation is like that,
it cannot just happen like that.The obvious reason to me is that
previous governments have failed in Edo state. It is the failure of
government that caused it. People leave the country to go to another
country in search of greener pastures. A child who is comfortable in his
father’s house will not leave for another man’s house. Children go out
when they are badly treated at home, when they are not happy. So rather
than government castigating these our women they should look inwards and
accept that they have a responsibility to these girls. If you fix this
state and make it attractive our girls will not leave. You can see that
the trend started abating when Governor Oshiomhole came to power, they
started seeing hope in Edo state and they are living here today doing
one thing or the other. So past governments in this state failed our
people and that is why they were all going to Italy If you make this
state attractive like the APC government is doing today, every body will
want to come here and stay. So I will not join any one to castigate
these girls at all, it is never their fault but the failure of the past
governments. And I thank God for the Comrade Governor who has laid the
foundation for progress in this state. My husband, Godwin Obaseki will
build upon what the Comrade Governor has done and you will see that Edo
will become greater.
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