Otti urges Abia women to join campaign against criminality, illicit drugs

Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has tasked women on inculcating good values on their children to curb unwholesome behaviours that endanger societal progress.

Governor Otti, who spoke at the grand finale of the 2025 women August meeting held by Abia women in Umuahia, urged them to campaign against the sale and consumption of illicit drugs, desperation for wealth and criminal activities.

He said that the women constitute an important stakeholder group and are relied upon to achieve the government’s social reorientation targets.

He regretted that the society is losing many young people to crime, substance abuse, and impatience, but declared that the bad situation must change.

“We are also losing many young people to crime, substance abuse, and impatience. This has to change immediately,” Otti said.

He encouraged the women to partner with him to achieve the objectives of his administration, saying that women in agriculture will form 60% beneficiaries of his administration’s N2 billion agriculture funds.

He said that his administration was doing everything to holistically address maternal and infant mortality in the State through education, quality healthcare for pregnant women, nursing mothers and their babies.

While commending his wife, Mrs Chidinma Otti for Abia women renaissance, Otti disclosed that he insisted that Abia women who were recently employed as teachers must be posted to areas not too far from their homes.