As women across Anambra State and the South-East begin this year’s annual August Meeting, the wife of the Anambra State Governor, Dr Nonye Soludo, has urged them to use the gathering to address pressing social issues, particularly the rising cases of violent abuse and maltreatment of domestic workers.
Soludo called on women to use the platform to confront what she described as the disturbing increase in cases of violent abuse, molestation, neglect and inhumane treatment of domestic workers, insisting that the silence surrounding such acts must end.
She made the appeal in a message issued on Friday to mark the commencement of the 2026 August Meeting, stressing that women should identify and address emerging social and moral challenges affecting families and society.
She urged participants to expand discussions beyond the traditional focus on community development projects and social activities to include practical and lasting solutions to the growing social and moral crises threatening family values and child development.
She said, “The recent reports of lethal physical assault, starvation, torture, emotional abuse and other degrading treatment meted out to housemaids, many of them minors, should trouble every conscientious mother.
