By Andanje Wakhungu
Lurambi MP Titus Khamala has urged all school girls to exercise high levels of discipline if they want to excel in their exams.
The MP said discipline plays a vital role in each student’s success hence need for them to uphold it.
He promised to empower the girl child academically in his constituency to achieve the quest for gender equality.
Khamala challenged parents who were still holding the notion that educating a girl child was a waste of time to step out of the backward and outrageous beliefs and educate girls.
“What I know is educating a girl is educating a whole society as their benefits spread wider than those of a boy child,” said Khamala.
The world has awakened to the realities of women making better leaders and even decision makers than we men and its only through education that they will be counted on tomorrow when they fairly compete for positions against the men.
He urged them also to choose progressive careers that will put them at the top of things.
“Long gone are days that girls were directed to do secretarial and office messenger jobs while the men took lucrative positions in companies. Go for engineering, medicine and law so that you can be that lady boss that supervises a team of men,” advised Khamala.
He gave examples of the new Chief Justice Martha Koome, her deputy Philemona Mwilu, Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan and US Vice President Kamala Harris as people they should emulate.
Among the speakers was Leah Akinyi from Sichirai in the constituency, a form 3 student at Butere Girls who enjoys full sponsorship.
