 The girl child, our time is now, our rights are future. Women's rights and equal contribution to development has been a heated debate in recent times. As the global ecosystem keeps evolving, human development is greatly dependent on multiple factors with inclusivity as a major. Between two teams of the International Day of the Girl Child doubt, our time is now, our rights are future. It extrapolates the need and urgency to treat gender equality and adherence to human rights as a priority. In the wake of this, global revolts and advocacy for women's rights are heating up. For instance, the death of 22-year-old Marsha Amini following her arrest by Iran's morality police, the guidance patrol overwearing an improper hijab in violation of the Iran's mandatory hijab law on women has sparked an ongoing series of protests and civil unrest against the government of Iran, majorly by women and persons fighting for equality and are weakened to the realities of the police of inclusiveness in development. The traditional blueprint has ingrained the consciousness that thorns a blunt eye to the needs of recognizing women in society. Women can continue to shatter glass ceilings and plant a new consciousness that women can be better. Women in academia like Chimamanda Mngozi Adishi in sports like Tubia Monsa in leadership like Mngozi Okunjiwela and other equally important fields of human indivisibility, including arts and STEM, are making the system to have a rethink. At this point, we must know that to deal with the issue of inequality, we must understand the dynamics of human uniqueness and the need to respect and nurture this uniqueness for greater outcomes. Women and girls around the world continue to face unprecedented challenges to their education, their physical and mental wellness and the protection needed for a life without violence. Some ways to address the concern of protection and securing the future of the girl child includes engaging government officials, policy makers and stakeholders, loss that prohibits girl child marriage and gender-based violence should be publicized and enforced, provision of safe and prejudice-free educational institutions and workplaces should be encouraged, religious and traditional institutions should continually sensitize their followers on the importance of educating and protecting the girl child. Engage key female influencers across industries to be the face of change we want girls to see as possible. Role models speak a thousand ways. Let's change the global conversation and publicization of girls as leaders in any of their chosen and developed. Showing commitment to raising awareness about and addressing issues may be a consign or root cause of prejudice against the girl child in our respective local communities or regions or countries. I will conclude by reflecting on the course of Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General in commemoration of the 2022 International Day of the Girl Child. Now, more than ever, we must renew our commitment to work together so that girls enjoy and exercise their rights and can play full and equal parts in their communities and societies. Investing in girls is investing our common future. I agree with everything that you have said. I am a girl child. Now a woman but a girl child. I must agree with everything that you have said. Representation is key. There are not a lot of women in key positions in the society and this reflects negatively on the girl child. It gives them an impression that they can't get there. They can't become what they want to be. If we see more people doing things like Chimamanda, Ongozi Adichie, Ongozi Okondrui Weala in those key positions, it will motivate more people to role models, to come up and do the same. It even motivates men to encourage their own girl children to do better. And as a girl dad, I was agree with everything you have said. But I think there is a very critical education and orientation that is required on both sides. In the sense that like you said, men have to understand that women can do everything. That a girl child can do everything. That's certainly what I tell my girls. Then the girls must also be educated to know they can do everything. Because of culture and society, there is a general understanding that there are things that a man should do and things a woman should do. But there has been a bit of education over the years that has made us realize that that's not particularly correct. So if we do, it's stereotypes. So if we do a orientation from the start for girls to know that you are absolutely capable of doing everything that a man can do, then the girls starts to understand that. Then you must tell the men that just because you have this agenda doesn't mean you are better than them or there are things that you can do that they can't do. So the education is both sides. I believe that if we spend time doing this education and orientation, I believe very strongly that we will be on our way to proper representation and more equal society. Nature is going to take its full course, which is give or take in the next 20 years. Some people are going to die. And that's the idea. So you can't escape death. And what I said that is we must be ready as young people to shape a new culture. Now there is a certain culture that have literally have not supported the girl child. And it's a patriarchy culture. It's a misogyny culture. And those that have instilled those cultures, like I said earlier, it looks for a word, but it's just the truth. There are some certain things that we may not be able to change. But of course, we keep re-educating and re-educating. But as young people, we must be ready when nature takes its full course on the old people who put us in this dilapidated condition. We must be ready to re-engineer a new culture, which is amongst ourselves. So that we don't repeat what we are fighting. Are we really conscious of the fact that we must make a room for the girl child? Or are we reinventing what the forefathers have installed? So we must even check ourselves within our conversations when we are setting up a team. Oh, Elijah, be the head. Titi, be the assistant head. Are we not also repeating those patterns? And so we must consciously say, oh, Titi is a better leader. Titi, be the president. You be the assistant president for this committee. So we always believe that the man must head the committee. Why? Sometimes the problem is not Titi. The problem is the man. You feel as if, oh, a woman can be here. So it's a problem of self-esteem that a lot of men have anyways. Anyone that feels complete in himself and has no self-esteem issues has no issues reporting to a woman. But because all your life, your mother reported to your father, something just tells you that there's something wrong with you reporting to a woman. So these are the things that you are saying that we have to start to do a re-orientation and a mind reset for you to know that there's nothing less than the man that you are if you report to a woman. And statistics have proven that women are actually better managers. In the companies that have more women on their board actually do better. And the countries that have women as presidents are doing... Let's not go there Titi. Let's not go there Titi. Let's not go there Titi. Let's not go there Titi. Let's not go there Titi. Let's not go there Titi. Let's not go to between pare wrong. NODGG On the issues of child marriage I think it should be abolished. It's like saying If a young man of 16 is not ready to be married, then why is a young girl of 16 ready to be married? If a young man of 9 is not ready to be the head of a home, why is a young girl of 9 ready to be married? Exactly. I mean, it's really that straight forward. Love is going to marry off a 10-year-old girl, then start marrying off 10-year-old boys. To 10-year-old girls as well. Because there's just no room for it. It's no sense. Thank you very much. Well, let's do our best to protect and educate the girls in our local communities for a more secure future. Of course, and the men because it's important. You do that for the boys and the girls to have a more secure future. Viktor is next after the break. Stay with us.